Research Handbook on Law and Religion

Edited by Rex Ahdar, University of Otago, New Zealand, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Adjunct Professor, School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia at Sydney

'Over the course of the last generation, the study of 'law and religion' has exploded in breadth, subtlety and significance. This Research Handbook provides its readers with a rich, varied, and sometimes provocative introduction to the field. Expert chapters not only shed new light on familiar topics, they also identify further avenues for fruitful scholarship. One is left with the sense that the most significant work still lies ahead - and also the intellectual tools to face that challenge.'--Julian Rivers, University of Bristol Law School, UKThe authors who have contributed so ably to this excellent volume are to be congratulated on scholarship of the highest quality, which treats a wide and rich range of issues at the centre of the field of law and religion today. Their contribution here will be of enormous value to all those who teach, study, and practise in this rapidly developing and important sphere of life.'--Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UK

• Contents: Foreword John Witte, JrPart I Law and Religion1. Navigating Law and Religion: Familiar Waterways, Rivers Less Travelled and Uncharted SeasRex Ahdar2. The Sociological Dimension of Law and ReligionRussell SandbergPart II Jurisprudential Themes3. Equality, Religion, and NihilismSteve D Smith4. Jeremy Bentham and the Problem of the Authority of Biblical LawJonathan Burnside5. Dworkin’s Religion and the End of Religious LibertyJoel Harrison6. What Kind of Human Right is Religious Liberty?Andrew KoppelmanPart III Religion-State Relations 7. Establishment and Encounter Perry Dane8. Religion, Secularism and Limitations on Constitutional AmendmentRichard Albert and Yaniv Roznai 9. Regulation of Religious Communities in a Multicultural PolityJaclyn L Neo10. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Unsettling of the SecularBenjamin L Berger11. The Boundaries of Faith-Based Organizations in EuropeHans-Martien ten Napel12. Enforcing Religious LawFarrah Ahmed Part IV Adjudicating Religion 13. When Judges are Theologians: Adjudicating Religious QuestionsMichael A. Helfand14. The Justiciability and Adjudication of Religious DisputesFrancois VenterPart V International Perspectives15. Controversial Doctrine: The Relevance of Religious Content in the Supervisory Role of International Human Rights BodiesPaul M Taylor16. Dangers of the Changing Narrative of Human Rights: Why Democracy and Security Need Religious FreedomMerilin KiviorgPart VI Freedom of Religion Issues17. Freedom of Religion and the Rise of Secularism: Struggles in the British WorkplaceMark Hill QC18. The Legal Recognition of Freedom of Conscience as Conscientious Objection: Familiar Problems and New LessonsIan Leigh19. Of Burqas (and Niqabs) in Courtrooms: The Neglected Women’s VoiceRenae Barker20. Trinity Western University’s Law School: Reconciling Rights Janet Epp Buckingham21. The Persistence of Religious Confession PrivilegeA Keith ThompsonBibliographyIndex