Anat Scolnicov

The Right to Religious Freedom in International Law (eBook, ePUB)

Between Group Rights and Individual Rights

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the right to religious freedom in international law, drawing on an array of national and international cases. Taking a rigorous approach to the right to religious freedom, Anat Scolnicov argues that the interpretation and application of religious freedom must be understood as a conflict between individual and group claims of rights, and that although some states, based on their respective histories, religions, and cultures, protect the group over the individual, only an individualistic approach of international law is a coherent way of protecting religious freedom. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and Non-Western jurisdictions, the book sets out a topography of different constitutional structures of religions within states and evaluates their compliance with international human rights law. The book also considers the position of women's religious freedom vis-à-vis community claims of religious freedom, of children's right to religious freedom and of the rights of dissenters within religious groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136907050
• Artikelnr.: 43072825

Autorenporträt

Anat Scolnicov is deputy director of the Centre for Public Law. She is lecturer and fellow in Law at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Existing Protection of Religious Freedom in International Law 2. Why is
there a Right to Freedom of Religion? 3. The Legal Status of Religion in
the State 4. Women and Religious Freedom 5. Children, Education and
Religious Freedom 6. Religious Freedom as a Right of Free Speech 7.
Conclusion