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Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity: State Accommodation of Religious Minorities book cover

1st Edition

Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity State Accommodation of Religious Minorities

Edited By Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ann Black Copyright 2025
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge
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Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity. As seen in world events, religion has not become irrelevant but more diverse, giving rise to a complex web of religion and belief minorities, together with intra-plural majorities. Nations seek ways to implement the ideal of freedom of religion, but as this book shows, whether East or West, in the... Read more

Part 1: Contemporary Issues Regarding Freedom of Religion and Accommodation of Religious Diversity

 

1. Governance of Religious Diversity across the World: An Introduction

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Ann Black

 

2. Freedom from Religion: Multiculturalism and the Rights of Women and Children

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

 

3. Religious Freedom, Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech

Sylvie Bacquet

 

4. Religious Freedom and International Protection of Places of Worship

Alejandro González-Varas Ibáñez

 

5. Religious Freedom or Multiculturalism? Quebec and Karnataka as Case Studies

Sonia Sikka

 

Part 2: Changing Nature of Freedom of Religion in the West

 

6. Religious Freedom and Accommodation of Religious Laws: Responses by the European Court of Human Rights

Burkhard J. Berkmann

 

7. The Rights of Religious or Belief Minorities and Their Members in Prison: The European Space

Rossella Bottoni and Ilaria Valenzi

 

8.  Limiting the Freedom of Religion in the Name of Animals: Un-stunned Ritual Slaughter and the European Courts

Carla Zoethout and Sien Devriendt

 

9. Could the European Court of Human Rights ever Recognise Conscientious Objection to Mandatory Vaccination?

Wojciech Brzozowski

 

10. Paganism, Witchcraft and the Satanic Panic in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall

 

11. Religion, Belief, and LGBTQIA+ rights in England and Wales: A response to some ongoing tensions

Javier García Oliva

 

Part 3: Freedom of Religion and Accommodation of Religious Diversity in Asia

 

12. Religion and State Legitimacy in Thailand and Myanmar

Amy Freedman

 

13. Religious Minorities in Brunei and Malaysia

Ann Black

 

14. Freedom of Religion and Religious Minorities in Indonesia: The Local Beliefs Case

Ahmad Rofii and Nadirsyah Hosen

 

15. Muslim Religious Minorities in India and Citizenship Amendment Act

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan

 

16. The Accommodation of Islamic Inheritance Law in ‘Secular’ India

Brooke Thompson

 

17. State Regulation and Promotion of New Religious Movements within the two ‘Spiritual Vacuums’ of Japan and China

Anthony Shaw

Biography

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan is Professor at the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh.

Ann Black is Professor of Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.

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