The Legal Treatment of Muslim Minorities in Italy: Islam and the Neutral State

ISBN-13: 9780367597443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Andrea Pin

Opis

This book describes the legal treatment of Muslims in Italy, contrasting it with other European states and jurisprudence and with wider global tendencies. The study presents a series of case studies and a theoretical framework built around the concepts of religious freedom, state neutrality and church and state collaboration. The author argues that

Spis treści

 Foreword, John Witte, Jr.; Introduction; Islam in Italy; The role of state-religion agreements in Italy: an imperfect pluralism; Islam and the state: tradition and modernization; Islam and relations with the Italian state; Making sense of religious freedom for Italian Muslims; The Italian version of state neutrality: ‘laicità’; State ‘laicità’ vis-à-vis the Muslim community’s demands; Conclusion: finding religious freedom in today’s ‘hybridization’; Index.

 

O autorze

Andrea Pin is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Padua. A Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a member of the scientific committee of Oasis International Foundation, he was visiting professor at the Universities of Emory and Notre Dame, visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and clerk justice at the Italian Constitutional Court. He has authored three books and several legal journal articles and book chapters. His works have appeared in Italian, English, French and Spanish.