Full Description
What is the status of indigenous religious rights in the world today? Despite important legal advances in the protection of indigenous religious beliefs and practices at the international and national levels, there are still many obstacles to the full implementation of these provisions. Using a unique large-scale comparative approach, this book aims to identify the fundamental issues that characterize the law of indigenous religions in several countries, as well as certain avenues that may prove useful in state implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples regarding practice, promotion, transmission, protection, and access to spiritual heritage.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Claude Gélinas, Sébastien Lebel-Grenier and Raphaël Mathieu Legault-Laberge
The Pachamama, the Trojan Horse of an Indigenous Ontological Diplomacy at the Convention of Biological Diversity?
Ingrid Hall
Spiritual, Religious or Cultural? Religion and Sámi Human Rights in the Nordic Countries
Helge Årsheim
Indigenous Religious Rights in India
Virginius Xaxa
Australia Has Failed to Protect the Religious Rights of Its Indigenous People
Ernst Willheim
Kanak Custom and Ancestral Culture in Colonial Context
François Féral
The Ainu Struggle for Sovereignty and Religious Freedom
Takeshi Kimura
Indigenous Religious Rights in the United States
Allison M. Dussias
The Colonial Overtones of Indigenous Religious Rights in Canada
Claude Gelinas
The Fundamental Right to Freedom of Religion for Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Intersections with Territorial Rights and Cultural Integrity
Leslie Cloud
Exploring the Historical Impact of Colonialism on Indigenous Religious Rights in Nigeria
Abiodun Akeem Oladiti
Recognition and Denial of Indigenous Religious Rights in East and Central Africa
Guy Bucumi
Indigenous Religious Rights in Taiwan: The Invisibility of Animism in Modern State Law
Scott Simon
Integration or Separation? Religious Freedom in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia:The Case of the Indigenous Kaharingan Religion in Central Kalimantan
Mirza Satria Buana
From Marginalisation to Self-determination: The Long Walk of First Nations' Religious Rights in Bolivia
Raphaël Mathieu Legault-Laberge
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