Constitutions and Religion

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
1. Introduction: constitutionalism and religion in an age of consolidation and turmoil
PART I HISTORY, CONCEPTS, THEORIES
2. Constitution and secularism: a Western account
3. Secularism’s others: the legal regulation of religion and hierarchy of citizenship
4. The theoretical framework of modern Islamic constitutionalism
5. The modern architecture of religious freedom as a fundamental right
PART II CONSTITUTIONAL COEXISTENCE: MODELS OF MANAGING RELIGION AND THE STATE
6. Constitutional models of law and religion relations in Western Europe
7. Constitutionalism and religion in common law North America
8. Religious freedom in Latin American constitutions: from freedom from the Catholic Church to freedom from “gender ideology”
9. Constitutions and religion in Africa
10. Islam, Sharia and comparative constitutionalism
11. Managing religion and difference: ancient constitutionalism in the Theravāda Buddhist tradition and the transformative impact of the modernist and post-colonial turn
12. Constitutionalism and religion in a Jewish and democratic state
13. Reforming religion: the Indian Constitution, the courts and Hinduism
14. Three models of church-state relations in contemporary Russia
PART III THE CONSTITUTION AND POLITICS OF RELIGION
15. Religion in constitution-making processes: comparative perspectives
16. Religion and political parties
PART IV RELIGION AND SUPRANATIONAL CONSTITUTIONALISM
17. Individual religious freedom under the European Convention of Human Rights
18. Religion in the constitutional order of the European Union
19. Religion and human rights
PART V CHALLENGES AND CONTROVERSIES
20. Gender justice and religious freedom in the post-secular age
21. Religious conscientious objection: a troubled path
22. Constitutional law and the integration of Islam in Europe
23. Blasphemy, freedom of expression and the role of constitutional rights: the case of Ireland
24. Pluralism and personal laws in India
Index