Author | : Susanna Mancini |
File Size | : 52,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 26 April 2024 |
ISBN | : 9780199660384 |
Pages | : 386 pages |
Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival by Susanna Mancini Book PDF Summary
"The revival of religion in many parts of the world and the migration of religious cultures as part of the process of globalization have posed 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"--