Faith in Courts

Human Rights Advocacy and the Transnational Regulation of Religion

Dr Lisa Harms (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-4505-4 (ISBN)

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The judicialisation of religious freedom conflicts is long recognised. But to date, little has been written on the active role that religious actors and advocacy groups play in this process. This important book does just that. It examines how Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims, Sikhs, Evangelicals, Christian conservatives and their global support networks have litigated the right to freedom of religion at the European Court of Human Rights over the past 30 years. Drawing on in-depth interviews with NGOs, religious representatives, lawyers and legal experts, it is a powerful study of the social dynamics that shape transnational legal mobilisation and the ways in which legal mobilisation shapes discourses and conflict lines in the field of transnational law.

Lisa Harms is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Münster, Germany.

Introduction: Transnationalisation, Judicialisation and the Regulation of Religion
From the National to the Transnational Regulation of Religion
Religious Freedom Advocacy in a Transnational Legal Field
Trajectories of Legal Mobilisation: Empirical Observations
Contributions
Chapter Outline

1. Fielding Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Sociological Approach to Transnational Legal Mobilisation
Social Movements and Legal Mobilisation
A Shift of Perspective: Mobilisation in (Transnational) Legal Fields
Methods and Data

2. Enacting the Liberal Script: Religious Transatlantic Networks and an Emerging Legal Field
From the Shadow of National Sovereignty to the Formation of a Transnational Legal Field
Jehovah’s Witnesses and Evangelicals: Early Pioneers of Religious Freedom Litigation
Enacting the Liberal Frame of Religious Freedom

3. Constituting Identities: Sikhs between Symbolic Gains and Legal Marginalisation
Diaspora Politics and Legal Mobilisation
‘Jurimetrics’ of the Challenger: Fitting the Legal Niche

4. The Orthodoxy of the Powerful: Christians Fighting against Change
Federating Symbolic Capital
Defending Incumbency
Inequalities and Symbolic Boundaries

5. Endogenous Change in the Transnational Field: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims and Christians’ Recursive Mobilisation
Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Expansion of Religious Freedoms
Muslims between Repeat Failure and Growing Activism
Conservative Christians’ Pushback against Anti-Discrimination Norms

Conclusion: Faith in Rights or Right Faith?
Religious Freedom Mobilisation and the Governance of Religious
Diversity
Towards a Field-Theoretical Understanding of Legal Mobilisation?
Religious Freedom quo vadis? Current Developments and Future Research Perspectives

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	1-5099-4505-9 / 1509945059
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-4505-4 / 9781509945054
Zustand	Neuware