Full Description
This book presents a human rights-based assessment of the various modes of state-religion identification and of the various forms of state practice that surround and characterize these different state-religion models. This book makes a case for the recognition of a state duty to remain impartial with respect to religion or belief in all regards so as to comply with people's fundamental right to be governed, at all times, in a religiously neutral manner.
Contents
Table of Contents - Summary
1 Introduction;
Part I State-Religion Identification:A Comparative Legal Analysis
2 Religious States, State Religions & State Churches;
3 State Support & State Acknowledgement of Religion;
4 Accommodation of Religions & Non-Identification;
5 Secularism & Separation of State and Religion;
6 Secular State Ideologies & Negative Identification;
Part II State-Religion Identification: A Human Rights Analysis
7 Preliminary Legal Questions Concerning Establishment of Religion and State Atheism;
8 Religious Laws & the State;
9 State Entanglement with Religion & the Equal Religious;
Rights of Others, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Association and Equal Employment Opportunities;
10 Religion & Education;
11 Religion & Politics;
Part III Conclusion: The Emerging Right to Religiously Neutral Governance
12 Towards Religiously Neutral Governance.