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Author:   Michel Rosenfeld ,  Susanna Mancini
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.784kg
ISBN:  

9780199660384

ISBN 10:   0199660387
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   19 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Conflicts between Secularism and Religion 2: Dieter Grimm: Conflicts Between General Laws and Religious Norms 3: Nadia Urbinati: The Context of Secularism: A Critical Appraisal of the Post-Secular Argument 4: Karl-Heinz Ladeur: The Myth of the Neutral State and the Individualization of Religion: The Relationship Between State and Religion in the Face of Fundamentalism 5: Andras Sajo: Preliminaries to a Concept of Constitutional Secularism 6: Michel Rosenfeld: Recasting Secularism as One Conception of the Good Among Many in a Post-Secular Constitutional Polity Part II: Religion, Secularism and the Public Square 7: Susanna Mancini: The tempting of Europe, the political seduction of the cross. A Schmittian reading of Christianity and Islam in European constitutionalism 8: Pierre Birnbaum: On the Secularization of the Public Square: Jews in France and in the United States 9: Michel Troper: Sovereignty and Laicite 10: Lama Abu-Odeh: Egypt's New Constitution: the Islamist Difference 11: Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar: The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation Part III: Religion, Secularism and Women's Equality 12: Patrick Weil: Headscarf v. Burqa: Two French bans with different meanings 13: John Borneman: Veiling and Women's Intelligibility 14: Daphne Barak-Erez: Reproductive Rights in a Jewish and Democratic State Part IV: Religious Perspectives and the Liberal State 15: Gustavo Zagrebelsky: One among many? The Catholic Church between universalism and pluralism 16: Gidi Sapir and Daniel Statman: Religious Marriage in a Liberal State 17: Andrew F. March: Are Secularism and Neutrality Attractive to Religious Minorities? Islamic Discussions Of Western Secularism in the 'Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities' (Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat) Discourse Part V: The Confrontation between Secularism and Religion in Specific Contexts: Education and Free Speech 18: Gila Stopler: The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel and the Right to an Exclusively Religious Education 19: Robert Post: Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of Muhammad

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Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival is an important, interesting, and very stimulating book. Andrzej Bronk, Anthropos

Author Information

Susanna Mancini is a Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna School of Law and an adjunct professor of international law at the SAIS Johns Hopkins University BC. She is a current visiting profesor at the Central European University (Budapest) and at the B.N. Cardozo School of Law (NYC). Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robbins Professor of Human Rights and director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Consumer Law and the author or co-editor of numerous books, including Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (2010) and most recently with Andras Sajo of the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law.

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