State-religion relationships and human rights law : towards a right to religiously neutral governance

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ISBN	9789004181489 (hbk.)
Call Number	K3280 T282 2010
Author	Temperman, Jeroen
Title	State-religion relationships and human rights law : towards a right to religiously neutral governance / by Jeroen Temperman
Imprint	Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010.
Physical	lviii, 382 p. ; 25 cm.
Note	Introduction --Religious states, state religions & state churches --State support & state acknowledgement of religion --Accommodation of religions & non-identification --Secularism & separation of state and religion --Secular state ideologies & negative identification --Preliminary legal questions concerning establishment of religion and state atheism --Religious laws & the state --State entanglement with religion & the equal religious rights of others, freedom of expression, freedom of association and equal employment opportunities --Religion & education --Religion & politics --Towards religiously neutral governance.
Note	This book presents a human rights-based assessment of the various modes of statereligion identification and of the various forms of state practice that surround and characterize these different statereligion models. This book makes a case for the recognition of a state duty to remain impartial with respect to religion or belief in all regards so as to comply with peoples fundamental right to be governed, at all times, in a religiously neutral manner.
Subject	Religion and state
Subject	Freedom of religion
Subject	Civil Rights
Subject	Discrimination
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