Law and Religion in the Liberal State

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan is Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Justice at Southeast University, Bangladesh. Darryn Jensen is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

1. Introduction: Law and Religion in the Liberal State
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Darryn Jensen

PART I
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND PARTICULAR TRADITIONS
2. Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty
Charlotte Carrington-Farmer
3. Orthodox Churches in the Post-Communist Countries and the Separation between Religion and State
Daniela Kalkandjieva
4. Catholic Social Thought, Religious Liberty and Liberal Order
Zachary R Calo

PART II
CONTESTED ISSUES
5. The Right to be Different: Religious Life in Twenty-First Century Great Britain
Anthony Bradney
6. Law, Religion and States: Searching for a Soul for Europe
Rafael Palomino
7. How to Deal with Religion in the Increasingly Pluralistic European Societies? The European Court of Human Rights on Crucifixes, Face-covering Veils and Disparaging Muhammad
Carla M Zoethout
8. Religious Symbol or Something Else? The Legal and Political Signification of the Crucifix in Italy from the Unification of the Country (1861) to the Present Day
Carlo Panara
9. Religious Exemptions from Civil Laws and Free Exercise of Religion in the USA
Maimon Schwarzschild
10. Whose Conscience? Which Complicity? Reconciling Burdens and Interests in the Law of Religious Liberty
Chad Flanders and Sean Oliveira
11. Sanctuary: Religion and Law in the United States
Dorothy Rogers
12. Exorcism: Faith versus Fraud: The Balance Struck between Freedom of Religion and Protecting the Vulnerable from Exploitation
Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall
13. Sacred Sites and State Failures: A Case Study of the Babri Masjid/Ram Temple Dispute in Ayodhya
Peter W Edge and MC Rajan
14. The Place of Shari’a in Australia
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan