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Human rights in the Polder : human rights and security in the public and private sphere
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ISBN: 9789050957458 9050957455 Year: 2007 Publisher: Antwerpen Oxford : Intersentia,


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Law and region : new horizons
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ISBN: 9789042921597 9042921595 Year: 2010 Volume: 7 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters


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Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th centuries).
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ISBN: 9782503565712 2503565719 9782503567099 2503567096 Year: 2017 Volume: 8 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective. The authors concentrate on a key aspect of this coexistence: the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimmis in Islamic lands." --Back cover.


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The burqa affair across Europe : between public and private space
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ISBN: 9781409470656 1409470652 9781315614229 9781317039655 9781317039662 9781138279797 Year: 2016 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This book provides a useful comparative perspective on how the issue of wearing the full-face veil or burqa/niqab has been dealt with across a range of European states as well as at European institutional level. In so doing, the work draws a theoretical framework for the place of religion between public and private space. With contributions from leading experts from law, sociology and politics, the book presents a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to one of the most contentious and symbolic issues of recent times.


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Law and religious minorities in medieval societies : between theory and praxis : conference, Spain, Córdoba, Casa Árabe, 28th to 30th April 2014
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ISBN: 9782503566948 2503566944 2503566979 Year: 2016 Volume: 9 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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"Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmīs, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe. Yet the theoretical hierarchies between faithful and infidel were constantly brought into question in the daily interactions between men and women of different faiths in streets, markets, bath-houses, law courts, etc. The twelve essays in this volume explore these tensions and attempts to resolve them. These contributions show that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful--and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore also the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian"--Back cover.

Leuven lectures on religious institutions, religious communieties and rights
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ISBN: 9042914971 9789042914971 Year: 2004 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leuven Dudey, MA Peeters

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Religious institutions, such as churches, are founded on organizational structures, constitute distinct entities in human society, and in their capacity as juristic persons are the repositories of rights and obligations. In certain jurisdictions the rights vested in a religious institution include constitutionally protected entitlements, such as the right to privacy, freedom of religion and belief, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and property rights. Religious communities, comprising persons sharing a particular confession of faith, lack an organized structure, do not qualify for legal subjectivity, and can therefore not participate in legal relationships as a distinct juristic entity. Rights associated with a religious community belong to the individual members of the community and can be exercised by those members, either individually or jointly with other members of the group. In international law, religious communities qualify as peoples for purposes of the right to self-determination. The rights belonging to religious institutions and religious communities to a large extent fall within the general enclave of economic, social and cultural rights. Economic and social rights have been singled out as a distinct category of constitutionally protected human rights in the early twentieth century and ultimately find their base in the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) of Pope Leo XIII. The Leuven Lectures, focused upon the above, seek to uncover the protection of the rights of religious institutions and religious communities in international law and in the constitutions of a cross-section of the international community of states.

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