Full Description
What constitutes the core values, tenets, cultural, historic, and ideological parameters of secularism in international contexts? In twelve chapters, this edited work examines current tensions in liberal secular states where myriad rights and freedoms compete regarding education, healthcare, end-of-life choices, clothing, sexual orientation, reproduction, and minority interests.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Contemporary Religious Freedom Issues in Secular Nations
1 Religious Freedom in a Secular State: An Introduction
Ann Black and Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
2 Civic Religion and the Rationality of Persecution
Darryn Jensen
3 In the Time of the COVID-19: Law, Religious Freedom and the Secular State
Ann Black
4 Bans on the Wearing of Burqas, Niqabs and Hijabs, Religious Freedom and the Secular Nature of the State
Erica Howard
5 The 'Non-Religious' in Religion and Worldviews Education and in the Light of Human Rights Law
Paul Weller
6 Religious Footprints in Secular Sand-the Imprint of Religious Culture in Civil Law
Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall
Part 2: National Approaches to Religious Freedom
7 The Constitutional Principle of Secularism in the Member States of the Council of Europe
Rossella Bottoni
8 The Religion Clauses in the U.S. Constitution
Russell L. Weaver
9 Constitutional Culture, Religion, and England-beyond Establishment
Javier García Oliva
10 Religious Freedom in South Africa
Helena van Coller
11 Religious Freedom in Australia
Peter Black
12 Religious Freedom in India and the Impact of Hindutva on Religious Minorities
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Index
