Institutionalizing Rights and Religion
Competing Supremacies
Published on 23. March 2017
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-1-107-15371-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
566 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-15371-4 (9781107153714)
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Persons
Leora Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University, New Jersey. Her publications include Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (2011). She has been a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Tokyo, and New York University Law School. Hanoch Dagan is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and former dean of the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Dagan has written over seventy articles in major law reviews and journals as well as five books including, most recently, Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013). His new book, The Choice Theory of Contracts (with Michael A. Heller), is also forthcoming with Cambridge.
Content
Institutionalizing rights and religion: introduction Leora Batnitzky and Hanoch Dagan; Part I. Secular Institutions and the Limits of Religious Recognition: 1. Religion in the law: the disaggregation approach Cecile Laborde; 2. The puzzle of the Catholic church Lawrence G. Sager; 3. Religious accommodations and - and among - civil rights: separation, toleration and accommodation Richard W. Garnett; 4. Israeli law and Jewish law in Israel: a zero sum game? Yedidia Z. Stern; 5. Why 'live-and-let-live' is not a viable solution to the difficult problems of religious accommodation in the age of sexual civil rights Mary Anne Case; 6. Control by accommodation: religious jurisdiction among the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel Michael Karayanni; 7. Decentralizing religious and secular accommodations Roderick M. Hills, Jr; 8. In search of the secular Yishai Blank; Part II. The Challenges of Religious Institutions for the Secular State: 9. The 'how many?' question: an institutionalist's guide to pluralism Ori Aronson; 10. Equality in religious schools: the JFS case reconsidered Haim Shapira; 11. Religious freedom as a technology of modern secular governance Peter G. Danchin; 12. Civil regulations of religious marriage from the perspectives of pluralism, human rights and political compromise Shahar Lifshitz; 13. The impact of Supreme Court rulings on the Halakhic status of the official rabbinical courts in Israel Amihai Radzyner; 14. Is conversion a human right?: a comparative look at religious Zionism and Hindu nationalism Leora Batnitzky.