Current Issues in Law and Religion

Contents: Introduction, Rinaldo Christofori; Part I Why Religion, Why Now? Political and Legal Perspectives: Religious revivals as a product and as a tool of globalization, Olivier Roy; Religious freedom, democracy and international human rights, John Witte Jr and M. Christian Green. Part II Law, Religion and Social Conflicts: The global rise of religious nationalism, Mark Juergensmeyer; 'The sacred conspiracy': religion, nationalism, and the crisis of internationalism, Nathaniel Berman; The threat of religious extremism, Amos N. Guiora; Security, religious autonomy, and the good society, Brett G. Scharffs; Globalization, postmodernism and proselytism, Silvio Ferrari; Apostasy and freedom to change religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea; The curious persistence of blasphemy, Jeremy Patrick. Part III Legal responses to Religious Issues: Cultural diversity: challenge and accommodation, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, Ralph Grillo, Andre J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen and Prakash Shah; Sharia in Europe: perspectives of segregation, assimilation or integration for European Muslims?, Mathias Rohe; Religious courts' recognition claims: two qualitatively distinct narratives, Jean-FranA?ois Gaudreault-Desbiens; Major controversies involving new religious movements, James T. Richardson; Scientology, P. Edge. Part IV Law, Religion and Gender Issues: Is multiculturalism bad for women?, Susan Moller Okin; Keeping faith: reconciling women's human rights and religion, Madhavi Sunder; On the tension between sex equality and religious freedom, Cass R. Sunstein; The unhappy marriage of religion and politics: problems and pitfalls for gender equality, Shahrah Razavi and Anne Jenichen. Part V Human Rights within Religious Organizations?: Justifications for religious autonomy, Norman Doe and Anthony Jeremy; The recurring paradox of groups in the liberal state, Frederick Mark Gedicks; The right to autonomy in religious affairs: a comparative view, W. Cole Durham; Homophobic speech, e