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Book SynopsisDo the Islamic veil or the crucifix have a place in schools? Should the secular state make allowances for religion? Such questions are examples of important issues for scholars and politicians and law-makers, and to answer them this book goes back to the fundamentals of European law and politics.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Camil Ungureanu; Part I: 1. Religion and political liberty in Italian republics (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) Maurizio Viroli; 2. Two stories about toleration Rainer Forst; 3. Natural reason, religious conviction, and the justification of coercion in democratic societies Robert Audi; 4. The 'other' citizens: religion in a multicultural Europe Maleiha Malik; 5. Islam and the public sphere: public reason or public imagination? Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand; Part II: 6. Law v. religion Lorenzo Zucca; 7. Unveiling the limits of tolerance: comparing the treatment of majority and minority religious symbols in the public sphere Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld; 8. Objective, critical and pluralistic? Religious education and human rights in the European public sphere Ian Leigh; 9. Religion and (in)equality in the European framework Aileen McColgan; 10. Is there a right not to be offended in one's religious beliefs? George Letsas; 11. Religious pluralism versus social cohesion? Daniel Augenstein; Part III: 12. Rights, religion and the public sphere: the European Court of Human Rights in search of a theory? Julie Ringelheim; 13. Towards a European 'approach' to religion? Camil Ungureanu.
