Religious Rights Within the Family: From Coerced Manifestation to Dispute Resolution in France, England and Hong Kong

ISBN-13: 9780367727000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 270 str.

Esther Erlings

Opis

It is often asserted that ‘A Family that Prays Together, Stays Together’. But what if a child no longer wishes to pray? This book analyses the law in relation to situations where parents force their children to manifest the parental religion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. A parental right to impose religious manifestations?

3. Children’s right to freedom of manifestation

4. Coerced manifestations as limitations on rights

5. Invoking and enforcing freedom of manifestation within the family

6. Parentally coerced religious manifestations in France

7. Parentally coerced religious manifestations in England

8. Parentally coerced religious manifestations in Hong Kong

9. Conclusions

O autorze

Esther Erlings is a Lecturer in Law at Flinders University, Australia. She has published in the areas of human rights (especially those of children), parental responsibility and law, and religion.