Law and Religion in the Liberal State

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan is Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Justice at Southeast University, Bangladesh. Darryn Jensen is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

• 1. Introduction: Law and Religion in the Liberal State Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Darryn JensenPART IRELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND PARTICULAR TRADITIONS2. Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty Charlotte Carrington-Farmer3. Orthodox Churches in the Post-Communist Countries and the Separation between Religion and State Daniela Kalkandjieva4. Catholic Social Thought, Religious Liberty and Liberal Order Zachary R CaloPART IICONTESTED ISSUES5. The Right to be Different: Religious Life in Twenty-First Century Great Britain Anthony Bradney6. Law, Religion and States: Searching for a Soul for Europe Rafael Palomino7. How to Deal with Religion in the Increasingly Pluralistic European Societies? The European Court of Human Rights on Crucifixes, Face-covering Veils and Disparaging Muhammad Carla M Zoethout8. Religious Symbol or Something Else? The Legal and Political Signification of the Crucifix in Italy from the Unification of the Country (1861) to the Present Day Carlo Panara9. Religious Exemptions from Civil Laws and Free Exercise of Religion in the USA Maimon Schwarzschild10. Whose Conscience? Which Complicity? Reconciling Burdens and Interests in the Law of Religious Liberty Chad Flanders and Sean Oliveira11. Sanctuary: Religion and Law in the United States Dorothy Rogers12. Exorcism: Faith versus Fraud: The Balance Struck between Freedom of Religion and Protecting the Vulnerable from Exploitation Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall13. Sacred Sites and State Failures: A Case Study of the Babri Masjid/Ram Temple Dispute in Ayodhya Peter W Edge and MC Rajan14. The Place of Shari’a in Australia Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan

The essays cover a broad range of topics—everything from exorcism to Shari’a—and also involve a variety of jurisdictions … the standard across the board is high. The editors obviously chose material carefully and the essays that made the final cut are well-researched and interesting.