Book coverReligious Freedom in Secular States: a 21st Century Perspective

This book reflects on what constitutes the core values, tenets, cultural, historic, and ideological parameters of secularism in international contexts. In twelve chapters, this edited work examines current tensions in liberal secular states where myriad rights and freedoms compete regarding education, healthcare, end-of-life choices, clothing, sexual orientation, reproduction, and minority interests. It explores the legal complexity of defining a ‘religion’ through judicial decisions and scrutinises Christianity, Hinduism and Islam’s relative success in accommodating religious pluralism.

Part One explores the religious practice and persecution nexus, COVID-19’s effect on religious freedom, religious education, burqas/headscarves, and religious culture in civil law. Part Two explores the constitutional principle of secularism in Member States of the Council of Europe, US Religious Clauses, and religious freedom in South Africa, UK, Australia, and India.

Editors: Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan (External CPICL Fellow) and  Ann Black (CPICL Executive Director (Comparative Law). Both are members of CPICL’s Legal Pluralism Program.

 

Legal Systems of the South Pacific 

With no new books written on these legal systems for nearly 30 years, the book fills a gap in the literature and offers a true 'insider' perspective with the majority of authors being indigenous or long-term residents of the countries in question. 

Editors: Jennifer Corrin, Tony Angelo, Cambridge, UK, Intersentia, 2021. 

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