Legal responses to religious difference / / Peter William Edge.

• VerfasserIn: Edge, Peter W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 pages)

Until recently English law has lacked any specific, generally applicable, guarantees of religious rights. Thus, bodies of law have developed in particular areas where religious interests arise but without a common legal frame. The Human Rights Act 1998, however, has brought the guarantees of the Eur...

Table of Contents

• Preface.
• Acknowledgements.
• Part I .
• 1. Introduction.
• 2. The International Legal Context.
• 3. The English Legal Context.
• Part II .
• 4. Religious Organisations.
• 5. Charitable Status for Religious Organisations.
• 6. The Constitution of the State.
• 7. Crime.
• 8. The Workplace.
• 9. Children.
• 10. Sacred Spaces.
• Part III .
• 11. Paganisms.
• 12. Scientology.
• Part IV .
• 13. Conclusions.
• Appendix.
• Bibliography.
• Index.