Religious Diversity, State, and Law

National, Transnational and International Challenges

Joseph Marko, Maximilian Lakitsch, Franz Winter, Wolfgang Weirer, Kerstin Wonisch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

452 Seiten

2022
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-51585-7 (ISBN)

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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the various features and challenges of the relationships between peace, state, law, and education in their transnational and international context.

Globalisation, migration, and (de-)secularisation have fundamentally transformed the concepts of religion, state, and law during the last decades. The main goal of this interdisciplinary approach is to clarify the multifaceted theoretical and practical challenges of religious diversity and socio-political pluralism in Europe.

In twenty-two chapters, the contributions to this volume revisit basic concepts, structures and institutional settings such as sovereignty; the dogma of the separation of state, church and/or religion; human and minority rights; gender and religion; varieties of fundamentalisms; interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding; and, not least, religious education.

Joseph Marko, Dr. juris, Mag.phil. (1977), University of Graz, is Professor emeritus of Public Law and Political Sciences at that university. He has published monographs, edited volumes and more than 120 articles on comparative constitutional law and politics, nationalism, power-sharing and minority protection, recently Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance. History, Law, Ideology and Politics in European Perspective (Routledge, 2019, co-edited with S. Constantin). Maximilian Lakitsch, Ph.D. (1982), University of Graz, is Lecturer at the Institute of the Foundations of Law (Department of Global Governance). He has published monographs and articles on the issues of authority, legitimacy, religion, and violence in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies. Wolfgang Weirer, Dr. theol. (1993), University of Graz, Associate Professor for Religious Education at the University of Graz. His most important publications deal with the topic of "Interreligious Education" and the further development of RE in Austria. Franz Winter, DDr. (1999 and 2005), is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Graz. He has published monographs, edited volumes, and articles on the entangled religious history of Asia and Europe from antiquity to modernity, including the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements (edited together with Lukas Pokorny; Brill, 2018). Kerstin Wonisch, Ph.D. (2022), University of Graz, is researcher at Eurac Research Bolzano and holds a background in law (Mag.jur. 2015) and religious studies (MA 2017). Her research focuses on the governance of religious diversity, as well as on religion and gender. She has published several edited volumes and scholarly articles on these topics in international journals.

1 Introduction: State, Law, and Religious Diversity

Joseph Marko, Maximilian Lakitsch, Wolfgang Weirer, Franz Winter and Kerstin Wonisch

Part 1

Religion, State, Law, and Secularism

2 Human Rights and the Osmosis between Secular and Religious Legal Systems The Post-modern European Right to Freedom of Religion through the Prism of the Islamic Veil

Alessandro Ferrari

3 Protection or Persecution? The State, the Law, and Minority Religion

Eileen Barker

4 Historicizing the Secularization Debate A Helpful Illustration from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dino Abazović

5 Russian Conservatism and Human Rights in Europe

Mikhail Antonov

6 Multiculturalizing Secularism

Tariq Modood

Part 2

Islamic Concepts of Law and Politics

7 Beyond the State Law Versus God’s Law Dilemma: A Genealogical Approach to Islamic Concepts of Law, Politics, and Sovereignty

Jocelyne Cesari

8 Religious Diversity, Secularisms, and Ideologies Comparing Western and Muslim Countries

Ahmet T. Kuru

9 Is a Comparative History of Western and Islamic Political Thought Possible?

Joseph Marko

Part 3

The Varieties of Religious Fundamentalisms

10 Islamic Fundamentalism: Beyond Islamism, Extremism, and Political Islam

Rüdiger Lohlker

11 Fundamentalisms Old and New? Intra-religious Developments and Inter-denominational Alliances in the New Christian Right in Austria

Katharina Limacher

12 The Varieties of Fundamentalism: A Comparative Approach to the Use of a Very Popular Term with a Buddhist Side-Step

Franz Winter

Part 4

Gender and Religion

13 Religion, Gender, and Law: A Tense Relationship

Kerstin Wonisch

14 Critical Reflections on the Androcentrism of Religious Norms: The Heteronomy of the Female Body

Dana El-Omari

15 Canon and Tradition in Transition: The Case of Gender in Israel

Henriette Dahan Kalev

Part 5

Religion and Education

16 Religion, Human Rights and Education in Pluralistic Societies Re-visiting John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas

Manfred L. Pirner

17 The Question of Truth within the Context of (Religious) Plurality A Challenge for Religious Education

Andrea Lehner-Hartmann

18 Pluralistic Society as a Challenge for Islamic Education An Example from Austria

Zerkirija Sejdini

19 Religious Education in a Pluralistic Society Opportunities, Challenges, and Legal Conclusions

Wolfgang Weirer

Part 6

Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding

20 Reconsidering the Transnational Dimension of Religion and Conflict

Maximilian Lakitsch

21 Interreligious Dialogue in a Pandemic Reality Between Priority and Luxury

Mohammed Abu-Nimer

22 Religious Perspectives and their Relevance for Peace: A Few Concluding Remarks on Interreligious Dialogue

Maximilian Lakitsch and Franz Winter

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance ; 16
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	90-04-51585-2 / 9004515852
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51585-7 / 9789004515857
Zustand	Neuware