Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism - A Comparative Overview [Hardcover]

This book is devoted to the studyof the interplaybetween religious rules and State law. It exploreshow State recognition of religious rules can affect the degree of legaldiversity that is available to citizens and why such recognition sometimeresults in more individual and collective freedom and sometime in a threat toequality of citizens before the law. The first part of the bookcontains a few contributions that place this discussion within the wider debateon legal pluralism. While Statelaw and religious rules are two normative systems among many others, thespecific characteristics of the latter are at the heart of tensions that emergewith increasing frequency in many countries. Thesecond part is devoted to the analysis of about twenty national cases thatprovide an overview of the different tools and strategies that are employed tomanage the relationship between State law and religious rules all over theworld.

Religious Rules and Legal Pluralism - An Introduction; Silvio Ferrari.- State Norms, Religious Norms, and Claims of Plural Normativity underDemocratic Constitutions; Michele Graziadei.- Anthropological Perspectives on the Normative and InstitutionalRecognition of Religion by the Law of the State; Martin Ramstedt.- Legal Pluralism: Freedom of Religion, Exemptions and Equality ofCitizens; Bryan S. Turner.- Applicable Religious Rules According to Austrian Law; WolfgangWieshaider.- Religious Rules and Principles in Belgian Law; Louis-L?on Christiansand Adriaan Overbeeke.- The Relation between Religion and State in Brazilian Law; Jane ReisGon?alves Pereira.- The Colombian Legal System: Applicable Religious Rules; Vicente Prieto.- Estonia: Religious Rules and State Law; Merilin Kiviorg.- La France Face ? Ses Religions; Jacques Robert.- The Interplay between State Law and Religious Law in Germany; InoAugsberg and Stefan Korioth.- Borders of Religious Authonomy l6