1st Edition

Funding Religious Heritage

Edited By Anne Fornerod Copyright 2015
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

This collection brings together a group of highly respected law and religion scholars to explore the funding of religious heritage in the context of state support for religions. The importance of this state support is that on the one hand it illustrates the potential tensions between secular and religious values, whilst on the other it constitutes a relevant tool for investigating the question of... Read more

Funding Religious Heritage

Biography

Anne Fornerod is a researcher at the CNRS-University of Strasbourg centre of research DRES. She did her PhD in public law at the University of Paris XI (2006). Her works address several issues in Law and Religion: religious heritage, principle of laïcité, State support for religions, chaplaincies, cemeteries and ECHR freedom of religion. She edited a book on chaplaincies in 2012 and published one book and several papers on cultural and religious heritage (2013). She was a member of the RELIGARE-project.

"For the immediate future it will be a useful source of reference for the legal framework and support mechanisms fbr religious heritage, plus insights into how they have come about, in a number of European states, (plus Turkey and Quebec). On another level it presents some interesting questions about the church in the modern world which are worth pursuing."

DAVID FIGURES, Journal of the United Reformed Church history Society