Marie-Claire Foblets, Katayoun Alidadi, Jørgen S
Nielsen, and Zeynep Yanasmayan (eds), Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for a Secular Europe?
This edited collection gathers together the
principal findings of the three-year RELIGARE project, which dealt with the
question of religious and philosophical diversity in European law.
Specifically, it covers four spheres of public policy and legislation where the
pressure to accommodate religious diversity has been most strongly felt in
Europe: employment, family life, use of public space and state support
mechanisms. Embracing a forward-looking approach, the final RELIGARE report
provides recommendations to governance units at the local, national and
European levels regarding issues of religious pluralism and secularism. This
volume adds context and critique to those recommendations and more generally
opens an intellectual discussion on the topic of religion in the European
Union. The book consists of two main parts: the first includes the principal
findings of the RELIGARE research project, while the second is a compilation of
28 short contributions from influential scholars, legal practitioners, policy
makers and activists who respond to the report and offer their views on the
sensitive issue of religious diversity and the law in Europe.
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