Freedom of Religion or Belief

Edited by Paul T. Babie, Neville G. Rochow KC, Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia and Brett G. Scharffs, J Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, US

Contents:

1 Creating and conserving constitutional space 1
Paul T. Babie, Neville G. Rochow QC and Brett G. Scharffs

PART I THE CONCEPT OF CONSTITUTIONAL
SPACE AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF
2 Religious freedom as an element of the human rights
framework 20
Carolyn Evans and Cate Read
3 The problem and the promise of religious liberty 40
Joel Harrison
4 ‘A la carte’ spirituality and the future of freedom of religion 58
Jeremy Patrick
5 Towards a constitutional definition of religion: challenges
and prospects 92
Alex Deagon
6 Freedom of religion without a bill of rights: Australia’s
peculiar approach to tackling freedom of religion and
other human rights issues 109
Renae Barker
7 The effect of s 116 of the Australian Constitution on the
implied freedom of political communication 131
Joshua Forrester
8 Conceptualising reasonable accommodation 164
Brett G. Scharffs
vi Freedom of religion or belief
9 Protection of religious freedom under Australia’s
amended marriage law: constitutional and other issues 184
Neil Foster
10 Identifying faith-based entities for the purposes of
antidiscrimination law 207
Mark Fowler

PART II COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
11 Reconciling democracy and human rights: implementing
the expressive freedoms of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights in Australian law 232
Paul M. Taylor
12 It works better if it is not too secularised: the Croatian
constitutional model for regulating state–church relations 260
Vanja-Ivan Savić
13 Locating freedom of religion within the qualified rights
of the European Convention on Human Rights and in the
jurisprudence of Strasbourg 283
Mark Hill QC
14 The Iraqi constitutional failure to protect the right to
freedom of religion or belief 298
Ewelina U. Ochab
15 An assessment of the constitutional space for secularity
and equality in India 319
Arvind P. Bhanu
16 The development trend concerning administration of
religion and religious affairs in China 339
Ping Xiong
17 Apostasy and freedom of religion in Malaysia 363
Joshua Neoh

Index 387