| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) |
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Issues in constitutional law ; volume 4 |
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Issues in constitutional law ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Constitutional democracy trapped between freedom of expression and freedom of religion : a preface / Renáta Uitz -- Free speech and religion : secular and religious perspectives on truth / Eric Barendt -- Free speech and the rights of religion / Matthias Mahlmann -- Militating constitutional democracy : comparative perspectives / Ruti Teitel -- Religious communication and its relation to the state : comparative perspectives / Monroe E. Price -- Hoisting us with our own petard : the fundamentalist intrusion into the secular project / Péter Buda -- What is the opposite of a perfectionist society? / Roberto Gargarella -- Free speech and religion --the eternal conflict in the age of selective modernization / Anthony Lester -- Speech, religion, and the traditional family : clashing orthodoxies within the modern constitutional state / Lorraine E. Weinrib -- Religion in schools / Aryeh Neier -- State, speech, and religion in Romania : the compounded troubles of overnight transition / Bogdan Iancu -- Collective aspects of the religious freedoms : recent developments in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights / Lech Garlicki -- Freedom of expression versus freedom of religion in the European Court of Human Rights / Javier Martinez-Torróņ -- Countervailing duties as applied to Danish cheese and Danish cartoons / András Sajó -- Free speech, religion, and the right to caricature / Guy Haarscher -- Religion and freedom of speech : portraits of Muhammad / Robert Post |
| Summary |
This book addresses the conflict between free speech and religion. Religious authorities have long tried to ""discipline"" free speech when it runs counter to religious teachings or dogmas. The reaction to the cartoons about the prophet Muhammad, published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten, demonstrated the resonance of the accusation of blasphemy inside Islam. The conflict is not, however, limited to Islam. The Catholic Church and various Protestant churches have strongly expressed their hostility toward various books, plays, and films that they consider ""collective defamation."" There is an inc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Freedom of speech.
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Freedom of religion.
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Offenses against religion.
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Freedom of expression.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Freedom of expression
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Freedom of religion
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Freedom of speech
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Offenses against religion
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Redefreiheit
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Religionsfreiheit
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Meinungsfreiheit
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Fundamentalismus
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Redefreiheit.
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Glaubensfreiheit.
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Fundamentalismus.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sajó, András
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| ISBN |
9789077596456 |
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9077596453 |
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