The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law

Malcolm Evans OBE is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. He is a member of the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe's Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion and Belief, and the author of many publications on international law, human rights, and religion.Peter Petkoff is a Lecturer at Brunel University and a Fellow of the Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College in Oxford.

• Forward ; Introduction ; 1. Religious Freedom in the Secular Age ; 2. Towards a Clear Conceptualization of Freedom of Religion or Belief ; 3. Freedom of Religion or Belief- New Challenges ; 4. Thirty Years 1981 Declaration as Reflected in Twenty -Five Years Mandate Practice of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief ; 5. Incitement to Hatred and the 1981 UN Declaration on Religion or Belief ; 6. A View from the United States: US Bilateral and Multilateral Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief ; 7. Lost Opportunities and Missed Targets: Notes on Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe ; 8. Old is New: Europe and Freedom of Religion or Belief ; 9. The Contribution of the European Parliment to the Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief through the External Relations of the European Union ; 10. Faith-Based Non-Governmental Organizations in the Public Square ; 11. Translating Across Secular and Religious Legal Cultures and Public International Law ; 12. The Holy See's Perspective on Religious Freedom ; 13. Religion, Human Rights and Foreign Policy ; 14. Corporate Religious Freedom ; 15. Freedom of Religion in Transnational Contract and Commercial Transactions

An important volume for anyone who wishes to understand the issues that are at stake in the field of international law and religion.