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Religious Freedom In The Jurisprudence Of The Egyptian And European Court Of Human Rights, Saba Mahmood, Peter G. Danchin
Religious Freedom In The Jurisprudence Of The Egyptian And European Court Of Human Rights, Saba Mahmood, Peter G. Danchin
Peter G. Danchin
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The Tangled Law And Politics Of Religious Freedom, Peter G. Danchin
The Tangled Law And Politics Of Religious Freedom, Peter G. Danchin
Peter G. Danchin
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Islam In The Secular Nomos Of The European Court Of Human Rights, Peter G. Danchin
Islam In The Secular Nomos Of The European Court Of Human Rights, Peter G. Danchin
Peter G. Danchin
Since 2001 the European Court of Human Rights has decided a series of cases involving Islam and the claims of Muslim communities (both majorities and minorities) to freedom of religion and belief. This Article suggests that what is most interesting about these cases is how they are unsettling existing normative legal categories under the ECHR and catalyzing new forms of politics and rethinking of both the historical and theoretical premises of modern liberal political orders. These controversies raise anew two critical questions for ECHR jurisprudence: first, regarding the proper scope of the right to religious freedom; and second, regarding the …
Who Is The "Human" In Human Rights? The Claims Of Culture And Religion, Peter G. Danchin
Who Is The "Human" In Human Rights? The Claims Of Culture And Religion, Peter G. Danchin
Peter G. Danchin
Modern critiques of international human rights law force us to confront at least two conceptual puzzles in the area of the claims of culture and religion. The first concerns the two concepts, often run together, of the secular (or secularism) and freedom, and the question of how rights—e.g. the right to freedom of conscience and religion—mediate between these purportedly universal or objective positions and the imagined subjective claims of particular religious or cultural norms. The second concerns the question of what we mean by “human equality” and how this idea relates to deeply-situated issues of collective identity and culture. Such …
Between Rogues And Liberals: Towards Value Pluralism As A Theory Of Freedom Of Religion In International Law, Peter G. Danchin
Between Rogues And Liberals: Towards Value Pluralism As A Theory Of Freedom Of Religion In International Law, Peter G. Danchin
Peter G. Danchin
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