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Constitutional secularism in an age of religious revival, edited by Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld

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Constitutional secularism in an age of religious revival

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edited by Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism. This challenge comes in the form of a political and institutional struggle against secular constitutionalism, and a two pronged assault on the very legitimacy and viability of the concept. On the one hand, constitutional secularism has been attacked as inherently hostile rather than neutral toward religion; and, on the other hand, constitutional secularism has been criticized as inevitably favouring one religion (or set of religions) over others. The contributors to this book come from a variety of different disciplines including law, anthropology, history, philosophy and political theory. They provide accounts of, and explanations for, present predicaments; critiques of contemporary institutional, political and cultural arrangements, justifications and practices; and suggestions with a view to overcoming or circumventing several of the seemingly intractable or insurmountable current controversies and deadlocks --, Provided by Publisher

1: Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Conflicts between Secularism and Religion 2: Dieter Grimm: Conflicts Between General Laws and Religious Norms 3: Nadia Urbinati: The Context of Secularism: A Critical Appraisal of the Post-Secular Argument 4: Karl-Heinz Ladeur: The Myth of the Neutral State and the Individualization of Religion: The Relationship Between State and Religion in the Face of Fundamentalism 5: Andras Sajo: Preliminaries to a Concept of Constitutional Secularism 6: Michel Rosenfeld: Recasting Secularism as One Conception of the Good Among Many in a Post-Secular Constitutional Polity Part II: Religion, Secularism and the Public Square 7: Susanna Mancini: The tempting of Europe, the political seduction of the cross. A Schmittian reading of Christianity and Islam in European constitutionalism 8: Pierre Birnbaum: On the Secularization of the Public Square: Jews in France and in the United States 9: Michel Troper: Sovereignty and Laïcité 10: Lama Abu-Odeh: Egypt's New Constitution: the Islamist Difference 11: Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar: The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation Part III: Religion, Secularism and Women's Equality 12: Patrick Weil: Headscarf v. Burqa: Two French bans with different meanings 13: John Borneman: Veiling and Women's Intelligibility 14: Daphne Barak-Erez: Reproductive Rights in a Jewish and Democratic State Part IV: Religious Perspectives and the Liberal State 15: Gustavo Zagrebelsky: One among many? The Catholic Church between universalism and pluralism 16: Gidi Sapir and Daniel Statman: Religious Marriage in a Liberal State 17: Andrew F. March: Are Secularism and Neutrality Attractive to Religious Minorities? Islamic Discussions Of Western Secularism in the 'Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities' (Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat) Discourse Part V: The Confrontation between Secularism and Religion in Specific Contexts: Education and Free Speech 18: Gila Stopler: The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel and the Right to an Exclusively Religious Education 19: Robert Post: Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of Muhammad