Law and Religious Diversity in Education: The Right to Difference

ISBN-13: 9781032335995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

Kyriaki Topidi

Opis

This book deals with the interplay of law and religion in education through the versatility of religious law, legal pluralism, as well as religion’s possible adaptation and reconciliation with modernity, in order to consider and reflect on normative conflicts.

Spis treści

1 The method: legal pluralism and comparative constitutional law: complementary methodology in the protection of religious difference

2 The concepts: revisiting religious diversity within multicultural classrooms: religious freedom, education and equality

3 The standards: interpreting the content of rights: the legal interaction of religious freedom, education and non-discrimination

4 Plural public education in Israel: for equal or different students?

5 Avoiding religion? The question of religious identity conflicts in education in South Africa

6 From tradition to modernity and back: religious diversity in English schools as a test-case for multicultural societies

7 Negotiating religious identity in public classrooms8 Legal empowerment through religious diversity in schools

O autorze

Kyriaki Topidi is a Senior Research Associate and Head of Cluster on Culture and Diversity at the European Centre for Minority Issues (Germany). Her research focuses on diversity management, religion, education and comparative law. She is the author and editor of a number of volumes, including EU Law, Minorities and Enlargement (Intersentia, 2010), Constitutional Evolution in Central and Eastern Europe: Expansion and Integration in the EU (Ashgate, 2011), Transnational Legal Process and Human Rights (Ashgate, 2013) and Religion as Empowerment: Global Legal Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). She has also recently edited a collection on Normative Pluralism and Human Rights published by Routledge in 2018.