ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
About the Book Series
The ICLARS Series on Law and Religion is designed to provide a forum for the rapidly expanding field of research in law and religion. The series is published in association with the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, an international network of scholars and experts of law and religion founded in 2007 with the aim of providing a place where information, data and opinions can easily be exchanged among members and made available to the broader scientific community (www.iclars.org). The series aims to become a primary source for students and scholars while presenting authors with a valuable means to reach a wide and growing readership.
The series editors are currently welcoming proposals for this new series on any matter falling under ‘law and religion’ widely defined. Collections arising from important conferences and events are welcome as well as monographs by both established names and new voices (including monographs based on doctoral dissertations). Also of interest are interdisciplinary works and studies of particular jurisdictions.
Culture, Secularization, and Democracy: Lessons from Alexis de Tocqueville
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie van Bijsterveld, Hans-Martien ten Napel
June 25, 2024
Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon. It starts from the assumption that if we are to adequately address concerns about the current state and future of modern Western democracies, we need first to tackle the cultural ...
Law, State and Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1st Edition
By Nedim Begović, Emir Kovačević
September 25, 2023
This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Historically, multi-religiousness has been a constant feature of the Bosnian polity, from its creation in 12th century until modern times. Since the middle of the 19th Century, Catholics have tended to ...
Dignity and International Human Rights Law: An Introduction to the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere
1st Edition
By Brett Scharffs, Ewelina Ochab
May 31, 2023
The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today. In 2018, an initiative was ...
Legal Code of Religious Minority Rights: Sources in International and European Law
1st Edition
By Daniele Ferrari
May 31, 2023
This volume presents a systematic collection of the various international legal sources that define the rights of religious minorities.In a time of increasing tensions around religious minorities, this volume presents a systematic collection of international and European documents on the protection...
Law, Religion, and Freedom: Conceptualizing a Common Right
1st Edition
Edited
By W. Cole Durham, Jr., Javier Martínez-Torrón, Donlu D Thayer
August 29, 2022
This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies, and international relations, who provide perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic. At a time ...
Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law: International Human Rights and Islamic Law in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Al Khanif
April 29, 2022
This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which ...
The Internal Law of Religions: Introduction to a Comparative Discipline
1st Edition
By Burkhard Josef Berkmann
February 23, 2022
Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology. This book presents a systematic theoretical basis for this new discipline. While law is mostly associated with the state, many religions ...
Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By W. Cole Durham, Jr., Donlu D. Thayer
June 30, 2020
We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once religiously homogeneous societies are becoming increasingly diverse. Religious freedom is modernity’s most profound if sometimes forgotten answer to the resulting ...
Religious Literacy, Law and History: Perspectives on European Pluralist Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberto Melloni, Francesca Cadeddu
June 30, 2020
The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy and its effects on the social and political milieu through the framing of the historical, institutional, religious, social, juridical and educational ...
Proportionality, Equality Laws, and Religion: Conflicts in England, Canada, and the USA
1st Edition
By Megan Pearson
May 23, 2019
This book considers how the law should manage conflicts between the right of religious freedom and that of non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. These disputes are often high-profile and frequently receive a lot of media attention and public debate. Starting from the basis that ...
Blasphemy, Islam and the State: Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Stewart Fenwick
August 14, 2018
This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world’s largest democracy after India and the United States. It argues that enforcement of Islamic principles by the state is inconsistent with ...
Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean: The Pluralistic Moment
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandro Ferrari, James Toronto
June 08, 2018
This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries, namely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, and Palestine. In particular, the book, with an interdisciplinary approach, investigates the role...