Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe

Peter A. Danchin is a scholar specializing in human rights and international law. Elizabeth A. Cole is program coordinator for the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. Both live in New York City.

• Preface, by Dr. J. Paul Martin, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University Introduction: Religion, Religious Minorities and Human Rights: An Introduction, by Peter Danchin, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Part I. Theoretical Perspectives 1. Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom: An Overview, by David Little, Harvard Divinity School 2. The Protection of Minority Religions in Eastern Europe, by Eileen Barker, London School of Economics 3. Equality and Religious Preferences: Theoretical, International and Religious Perspectives, by Tad Stahnke, U.S. Commission on International and Religious Freedom Part II. International Legal Perspectives 4. External Monitoring and the International Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief, by Peter Danchin, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs 5. The Evolving Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Religious Minorities, by Peter Danchin and Lisa Forman, Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 6. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Rights of Religion or Belief, by T. Jeremy Gunn, Emory Law School 7. Self-Determination and the Right to Secession of Religious Minorities under International Law, by Johan van der Vyver, Emory Law School Part III. Case Studies A. Eastern and Central Europe 8. State Politics and Religious Pluralism in Russia and Ukraine: A Comparative Perspective, by Serhii Plokhy, University of Alberta 9. Law and Politics toward the Muslims in Bulgaria, by Krassimir Kanev, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee 10. Protection of Minority Religions in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis, by Balazs Schanda B. Western Europe-Comparative Perspectives 11. European Parliamentary Enquette Commissions: Justification of a Two-Tiered System of Religious Freedoms, by Carolyn Wah, Watchtower 12. The Contemporary Form of the Relationship between Religious Minorities and the State in Spain, by Rosa Maria Martinez de Codes, Ministry of Justice, Spain 13. The Protection of Religious Minorities in Belgium: A Western European Perspective, by Willy Fautre, Human Rights Without Frontiers Part IV. Non-Legal Approaches 14. The Development of Polish Civil Society and the Experience of the Greek Catholic Minority in Eastern Poland, by Christopher Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 15. The Catholic Church in Post-Communist Europe, by Timothy Byrnes, Colgate University 16. American Church Advocacy of Religious Rights in East Germany: The Legacy of the Past for the Present, by Robert Goeckel, SUNY Geneseo 17. Christian-Jewish Dialogue in Poland: A Difficult Road to Tolerance, by Stanislaw Krajewski, Warsaw University and Consultant to the American Jewish Co Afterword 18. Religion and Human Rights: The Capacity to "Swear to one's own Hurt", by Donald W. Shriver, Union Theological Seminary