Institutionalizing Rights and Religion

Competing Supremacies

Leora Batnitzky editor Hanoch Dagan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:20th Dec '18

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This book examines the institutional relationship between religions, political regimes, and human rights.

This book illuminates the institutional challenges posed by, and possible responses to, the fraught relationship between religion and rights in the world today. It will be of interest to students and professionals focusing on law, religion, public policy, political theory, and sociology.Modern statesmen and political theorists have long struggled to design institutions that will simultaneously respect individual freedom of religion, nurture religion's capacity to be a force for civic good and human rights, and tame religion's illiberal tendencies. Moving past the usual focus on personal free expression of religion, this illuminating book - written by renowned scholars of law and religion from the United States, England, and Israel - considers how the institutional design of both religions and political regimes influences the relationship between religious practice and activity and human rights. The authors examine how the organization of religious communities affects human rights, and investigate the scope of a just state's authority with respect to organized religion in the name of human rights. They explore the institutional challenges posed by, and possible responses to, the fraught relationship between religion and rights in the world today.

ISBN: 9781316607756

Dimensions: 230mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 400g

282 pages