Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy / / ed. by Cécile Laborde, Jean Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi,; Bardon, Aurélia,; Bhargava, Rajeev,; Cohen, Jean L.,; Ergas, Yasmine,; Grimm, Dieter,; Haupt, Claudia E.,; Joppke, Christian,; Laborde, Cécile,; Lacorne, Denis,; Malik, Maleiha,; McClain, Linda C.,; Modood, Tariq,; Moyn, Samuel,; Phillips, Anne,; Romero, Alicia Cebada,; Troper, Michel,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Jean,; Laborde, Cécile,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe.Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Freedom of Religion or Human Rights -- 1. Religious Freedom and the Fate of Secularism -- 2. Religion: Ally, Threat, or Just Religion? -- 3. Regulating Religion Beyond Borders -- 4. Pluralism vs. Pluralism -- Part II: Nonestablishments and Freedom of Religion -- 5. Rethinking Political Secularism and the American Model of Constitutional Dualism -- 6. Is European Secularism Secular Enough? -- 7. State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship -- 8. Breaching the Wall of Separation -- 9. Transnational Nonestablishment (Redux) -- Part III: Religion, Liberalism, and Democracy -- 10. Liberal Neutrality, Religion, and the Good -- 11. Religious Arguments and Public Justification -- 12. Religious Truth and Democratic Freedom -- 13. Republicanism and Freedom of Religion in France -- Part IV: Sovereignty and Legal Pluralism in Constitutional Democracies -- 14. Sovereignty and Religious Norms in the Secular Constitutional State -- 15. Religion and Minority Legal Orders -- 16. The Intersection of Civil and Religious Family Law in the U.S. Constitutional Order -- 17. Religion-Based Legal Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe -- Conclusion: Is Religion Special? -- Contributors -- Index