Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival

2014 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear, small sticker to endpaper else very good condition. 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. The book is separated in to five parts. Part I provides theoretical perspectives on the present day conflicts between secularism and religion. Part II focuses on the relationship between religion, secularism and the public sphere. Part III examines the nexus between religion, secularism and women's equality. Part IV concentrates on religious perspectives on constraints on, and accommodations of, religion within the precincts of the liberal state. Finally, Part V zeroes in on conflicts between religion and secularism in specific contexts, namely education and freedom of speech. Contents List of Contributors Introduction by Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN SECULARISM AND RELIGION 1. Conflicts Between General Laws and Religious Norms by Dieter Grimm 2. The Context of Secularism: A Critical Appraisal of the Post-Secular Argument by Nadia Urbinati 3. The Myth of the Neutral State and the Individualization of Religion: The Relationship Between State and Religion in the Face of Fundamentalism by Karl-Heinz Ladeur 4. Preliminaries to a Concept of Constitutional Secularism by Andras Sajo 5. Recasting Secularism as One Conception of the Good Among Many in a Post-Secular Constitutional Polity by Michel Rosenfeld II. RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE 6. The Tempting of Europe, the Political Seduction of the Cross: A Schmittian Reading of Christianity and Islam in European Constitutionalism by Susanna Mancini 7. On the Secularization of the Public Square: Jews in France and in the United States by Pierre Birnbaum 8. Sovereignty and Laicite by Michel Troper 9. Egypt's New Constitution: The Islamist Difference by Lama Abu-Odeh 10. The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation by Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar III. RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND WOMEN'S EQUALITY 11. Headscarf versus Burqa: Two French Bans with Different Meanings by Patrick Weil 12. Veiling and Women's Intelligibility by John Borneman 13. Reproductive Rights in a Jewish and Democratic State by Daphne Barak-Erez IV. RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES AND THE LIBERAL STATE 14. One Among Many? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Pluralism by Gustavo Zagrebelsky 15. Religious Marriage in a Liberal State by Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman 16. Are Secularism and Neutrality Attractive to Religious Minorities? Islamic Discussions of Western Secularism in the 'Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities' (Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat) Discourse by Andrew F. March V. THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN SECULARISM AND RELIGION IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS: EDUCATION AND FREE SPEECH 17. The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel and the Right to an Exclusively Religious Education by Gila Stopler 18. Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of Muhammad by Robert Post. …