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.
The Church and Employment Law: A Comparative Analysis of The Legal Status of Clergy and Religious Workers
1st Edition
By John Duddington
August 26, 2024
This book examines the current law on the employment status of ministers of religion together with religious workers and volunteers and suggests reforms in this area of the law to meet the need for ministers to be given a degree of employment protection. It also considers the constant theme in ...
Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity: State Accommodation of Religious Minorities
1st Edition
Edited
By Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ann Black
August 23, 2024
Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity. As seen in world events, religion has not become irrelevant but more diverse, giving rise to a complex web of religion and belief minorities, together with intra-plural majorities. Nations seek ...
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 U. 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 ...
Law and Religious Diversity in Education: The Right to Difference
1st Edition
By Kyriaki Topidi
June 13, 2022
Religion is a prominent legal force despite the premise constructed and promoted by Western constitutionalism that it must be separated from the State in democracies. Education constitutes an area of human life that leaves ample scope for the expression of religious identity and shapes the citizens...
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 ...
The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse
1st Edition
By Lori Beaman
December 13, 2021
This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board ...
Protecting the Religious Freedom of New Minorities in International Law
1st Edition
By Fabienne Bretscher
June 30, 2021
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC). New minorities are increasingly confronted with ...
Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa: Applying Legal Pluralism in Ghana
1st Edition
By Seth Tweneboah
June 30, 2021
Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping ...