Constitution writing, religion and democracy

What role do and should constitutions play in mitigating intense disagreements over the religious character of a state? And what kind of constitutional solutions might reconcile democracy with the type of religious demands raised in contemporary democratising or democratic states? Tensions over reli...

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Otros Autores: Bali, Asli Ümmühan, 1971- editor literario (editor literario), Lerner, Hanna, editor literario
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press 2018
Edición:1st paperback ed
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  • The curious case of religion in the Norwegian Constitution / John Madeley
  • Religion and the Japanese Constitution / Helen Hardacre
  • Constitution-making and religion in West Germany in the shadow of state failure / Tine Stein
  • Secularism in a sectarian society? The divisive drafting of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution / Mark Farha
  • The Constitution of a "Laic" African and Muslim country : Senegal / Soulaymane Bachir Diagne
  • Constitution writing and religious divisions in Turkey / Ergun Ozbudun
  • Constitutionalism, Islamic law, and religious freedom in postindependent Indonesia / Mirjam Kunkler
  • Cross-cutting rifts in constitutions and minority rights : India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka / Shylashri Shankar
  • Islamic law in an Islamic Republic : what role for parliament? / Matthew J. Nelson
  • Constitutional impasse, democracy and religion in Israel / Hanna Lerner
  • Islam and constitutionalism in the Arab world : the puzzling course of Islamic inflation / Nathan J. Brown
  • The politics of sacred paralysis : Islam in recent Moroccan and North African constitutions / David Mednicoff
  • Dancing by the cliff : constitution writing in post-revolutionary Tunisia, 2011-2014 / Nadia Marzouki
  • Designing constitutions in religiously divided societies / Asli U. Bali and Hanna Lerner.