This topical study of a highly sensitive area of education presents a valuable insight for students, researchers and academics with an interest in cultural and religious diversity, human rights and education. This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious dive…
"In Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law: Toward a World Legal Tradition, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are attributable, in substantial part, to variations in their respective religious and …
Weaves together international and comparative law, religion, international relations, comparative politics, and legal history to illuminate and address the theoretical and practical dimensions of a significant human rights problem.
"How to accommodate diverse religious practices and laws within a secular framework is one of the most pressing and controversial problems facing contemporary European public order. In this provocative contribution to the subject, Lorenzo Zucca argues that traditional models of …
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Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes se…
Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes se…
This volume of essays offers a new interpretation of the role of tolerance and intolerance in the European Reformation. It questions the traditional view, which has claimed a progressive development towards greater religious toleration from the beginning of the sixteenth century…
Mongolia: politics, economics and society
General study, politics, economy and society, Mongolia - geographical aspects, historical background, political developments, the political system, social structure, ethnic groups, population trends, the economic system, agricultural sector, religious freedom, educational policy…
In 1636, Roger Williams established the colony of Providence. He did so with the goal of creating a safe-haven for those who were persecuted due to their relgious beliefs. It was his desire to construct a functioning society in which people were free to live out their spiritual …
Following decades of intense political tumult in England, toward the close of the seventeenth century John Locke set forth his liberal political theory in his famous work, Two Treatises of Government. In that volume, Locke turned the conventional understanding of the proper rela…
Centering a concept that cuts across categories of analysis and experience, “For Conscience' Sake” looks to the notion of the conscience as a new hermeneutic tool for understanding religious belief, ethical reasoning, and political action. The role of individual moral judgment w…
American politics and law, like other liberal democracies, couches itself in the protection of the free individual, one who possesses both “beliefs” and the unalienable right to those “beliefs”. The “freedom of religion” guaranteed to U.S. citizens in the Establishment and Free …
In recent years, there have been a number of books and articles that have presented arguments for and against the idea that there should be special legal protection of religious freedom. One question to which such treatments respond can be articulated thus: Are there strong phil…
This work grew out of a moral puzzle. How can the many govern as one when they are divided on the most fundamental matters, matters that would directly inform the procedures and commitments of self-governance? Without a convincing answer to this question, the democratic ideals o…