果冻影院

This module will examine the main issues arising in context of the contemporary relationship between religion, the individual, the law and the state.

The module will involve comparative analysis of the principle patterns of regulating such relationships. It will also address the major debates around the relationship between theories of egalitarian liberal democracy and secularism.聽

This analysis will focus on theoretical debates and practical dilemmas in relation to the admissibility of religious arguments in law-making, the complicated relationship between freedom of and freedom from religion and the role of religion in non-discrimination law.聽

Module Syllabus

• Key Concepts聽
• Freedom of Religion聽
• Freedom from Religion聽
• The Secular State聽
• Religion in the Political Arena聽
• Blasphemy and Free Speech聽
• Religion, Culture and State聽
• 滨尘尘颈驳谤补迟颈辞苍听

• Comparative Analysis of Church/State Arrangements in Europe

Recommended Materials

• Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God, (New York, Knopf, 2007).聽
• Ronan McCrea, Religion and the Public Order of the European Union (Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2010) chapters 6 and 7聽
• Ronan McCrea, The Ban on the Veil and European Law (2013) Human Rights Law Review 13(1) 57-97聽

• Cecile Laborde Liberalism鈥檚 Religion (Harvard University Press, 2018), (Introduction and Part I, Section 1).

Module reading lists and other module materials will be provided via online module pages, available at the beginning of term once students have enrolled.

Preliminary Reading

• Juergen Habermas, 鈥楻eligion in the public sphere鈥�. European Journal of Philosophy, 14/1, 2006:1-25聽
• Richard Rorty, 1994 鈥淩eligion as Conversation-Stopper.鈥� Common Knowledge 3:1 (Spring), 1鈥�6聽

• Ronan McCrea 鈥淪ecularism before the Strasbourg Court: Abstract Constitutional Principles as a Basis for Limiting Rights鈥� Modern Law Review 79(4) (2016) 691-705聽

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