Religion and Equality: Law in Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781138605688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 214 str.

W. Cole Durham Jr; Donlu D. Thayer

Opis

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape.

Spis treści

Preface; Foreword: equality and diversity in conceptualizing freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt; Introduction: conscience and equality: negotiating emerging tensions, Russell Sandberg. Part I Religion and Anti-Discrimination Norms: The right to religion: an evaluation of the texts of the main binding international and european juridical instruments, Nicolae Dură; Freedom of religion: Strasbourg and Luxembourg compared, Mark Hill; State neutrality, religion, and the workplace in the recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights, María J. Valero Estarellas; Religious freedom, anti-discrimination, and minority rights in Brazil, Rodrigo Vitorino Souza Alves; Anti-discrimination legislation and regulation of employment decisions of religious schools in Australia, Greg Walsh. Part II Religion and Same-Sex Marriage: Same-sex marriage: exemptions for celebrants and religious freedom, Rex Ahdar; Marriages, civil unions, partnerships, and religion in South Africa after 1996, Pieter Coertzen; A fissure within the human rights system? Same-sex marriage claims and religious freedom of speech, Ursula Cristina Basset; A ‘bare… purpose to harm’? Marriage and Catholic conscience, Helen M. Alvaré; Protecting same-sex marriage and religious liberty, Thomas Berg and Douglas Laycock. Conclusion: religion and equality: reconcilable differences, W. Cole Durham, Jr.; Index.