The Right to Wear Religious Symbols

ISBN-13: 9781137354167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 146 str.

Daniel J. Hill; Daniel Whistler

Opis

Clearly presenting the case-law concerning Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, this is a lively and accessible analysis of a key issue in contemporary society: whether there is a human right to wear a religious symbol and how far any such right extends.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Table of Cases Table of Statutes & Treaties Introduction: Philosophy of Religion goes to Court PART I: TRENDS IN ARTICLE 9(1) 1. The Manifestation Test 2. The Myth of the Necessity Test 3. The Practical Turn PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE PRACTICAL TURN 4. The UK Government and Generally Recognized Practices 5. The Participative Symbol 6. High-level and Low-level Beliefs Conclusion: Why Eweida Won Bibliography Index

O autorze

Daniel J. Hill is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is author of Divinity and Maximal Greatness (2005) and of Christian Philosophy: A-Z (2007). He is Secretary of the Tyndale Fellowship's Study Group in Philosophy of Religion.

Daniel Whistler is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is author of Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language (2013), and co-editor of After the Postsecular and the Postmodern (2010) and Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs (2011). He is currently editing the Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Theology (forthcoming).