State neutrality : the sacred, the secular and equality law /
O'Halloran, Kerry,author.
"Considers the similarities and differences in the relationship between Church and State, on a range of contemporary matters, in six countries. These - the Part II jurisdictions - are chosen on the basis of the contrasts they offer: the US and Canada, built on the contribution of immigrants but with sizeable indigenous populations, have distinctively different constitutional interpretations of that relationship; England and Wales and its five centuries of an 'established Church'; France where laïcité resolutely dictates the place of religion; Germany which struggles to overcome its Nazi past and re-integrate its eastern Communist citizens; and the outlier, Israel "a Jewish State for a Jewish people", established and maintained to provide a distinctly non-neutral protection to a specific religion and one where Judaism and the State are, seemingly, moving ever closer to a theocratic relationship. All six jurisdictions are modern democracies and all are signatory nations to international treaties that require States to adopt a neutral approach to religion"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
State neutrality : background history; concepts, definitions and principle -- Civil society : pluralism, multiculturalism and the church-state interface -- International treaties, conventions, protocols, and the European Court of Human Rights rulings -- The United States of America : the church-state wall -- Canada : bijuralism -- England : the established church -- France : Laïcité -- Germany : the Vaterland -- Israel : halakha and Zionism -- Themes of commonality and difference -- State neutrality : a work in progress.
"Considers the similarities and differences in the relationship between Church and State, on a range of contemporary matters, in six countries. These - the Part II jurisdictions - are chosen on the basis of the contrasts they offer: the US and Canada, built on the contribution of immigrants but with sizeable indigenous populations, have distinctively different constitutional interpretations of that relationship; England and Wales and its five centuries of an 'established Church'; France where laïcité resolutely dictates the place of religion; Germany which struggles to overcome its Nazi past and re-integrate its eastern Communist citizens; and the outlier, Israel "a Jewish State for a Jewish people", established and maintained to provide a distinctly non-neutral protection to a specific religion and one where Judaism and the State are, seemingly, moving ever closer to a theocratic relationship. All six jurisdictions are modern democracies and all are signatory nations to international treaties that require States to adopt a neutral approach to religion"--
Church and state.
Ecclesiastical law.
Religion and state.
Freedom of religion.
Secularism.
Laicism.
Equality before the law.