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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Spain deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal parameters affecting the influence of religion in politics and public life. Also covered are legal positions on religion in such specific fields as church financing, labour and employment, and matrimonial and family law. A clear and comprehensive overview of relevant legislation and legal doctrine make the book an invaluable reference source and very useful guide. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to practitioners in the myriad instances where a law-related religious interest arises in Spain. Academics and researchers will appreciate its value as a thorough but concise treatment of the legal aspects of diversity and multiculturalism in which religion plays such an important part.

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Javier Martínez-Torrón is Professor of Law at Complutense University (Madrid) and doctor utroque iure(of Law and of Canon Law). Born in 1955, he studied Law and Canon Law at the Universities of Seville, Granada and Navarra. He joined the Law School of Complutense University in 1984 as associate professor. He obtained his first chair as catedráticoat the University of Granada, in 1993, where he was director of the area of Law and Religion (1993-2000) and founded the seminar of comparative law in 1997. In 2000, he returned to Complutense University, where he has been director of the Department of Law and Religion (2009-2017). He has taught, lectured or been visiting scholar at more than eighty universities of the five continents, among them Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, Ottawa, Freiburg (Germany), Turin, UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Haifa, and Catholic University of Chile. Since 2001, he has been teaching Comparative Law at the Summer Law Courses of Saint Louis University (Madrid campus). He is Vice-President of the Department of Canon Law and Church-State Relations of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (1994). He has been a member of the Advisory Commission on Religious Freedom in the Spanish Ministry of Justice (2002-2014) and of the OSCE/ODIHR Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion of Belief (2005-2013). He was a member of the founding directive board of the first Spanish legal periodical specifically focused on law and religion studies (Anuario de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado, 1985). He is the founder and co-editor of the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado(2003), the first electronic legal periodical in Spain specialized on law and religions issues and canon law. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal(2006) and the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion(2011), as well as of the International Advisory Board of the Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho y Religión(Chile, 2015). He is the author of numerous books and articles, published in 23 countries - 22 books as author or editor and more than 120 essays in legal periodicals or book chapters. His writings have been published in Spanish, English, Italian, French, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovakian, Turkish, Indonesian, Chinese, Vietnamese and Catalan. His research is characterized by a predominant interest in comparative and international law issues relating to the treatment of freedom of religion and belief, and to the evolution of Western legal traditions. In 1998 he received the Arturo Carlo Jemolo Award (University of Turin) for his book Le obiezioni di coscienza. Profili di diritto comparato (co-authored with Rafael Navarro-Valls, 1995). His other books include: Separatismo y cooperación en los acuerdos del Estado con las minorías religiosas(1994); Anglo-American Law and Canon Law. Canonical Roots of the Common Law Tradition(1998); Religión, derecho y sociedad(1999); Conflictos entre conciencia y ley. Las objeciones de conciencia, with Rafael Navarro-Valls (2nd ed., 2012); Tensiones entre libertad de expresión y libertad religiosa(editor with Santiago Cañamares, 2014); Religion and the Secular State(editor with W. Cole Durham Jr, 2015); and Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History(editor with Rafael Domingo, forthcoming in April 2018).

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