Religious Freedom in Italy
Religious Freedom in Italy

Author: Alessandro Ferrari

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-12-31

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 311074371X

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Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom. Often identified as a Catholic nation par excellence, Italy owes its unification to a political class that advocated the separation of Church and State. Home of the Concordat, contemporary Italy recognises a peculiar notion of legal secularism (laicità) as the supreme principle of its constitutional order. Through the glasses of law, tracing the history of the right to religious freedom from the Unification to the present day, the nine chapters of the book allow an insight on paradoxes and contradictions of a complex system made of unresolved stratifications where a strong constitutional recognition of religious freedom is accompanied by a weak legislative protection of religious pluralism and, at the same time, a vigorous religious agency in the public space. Religious freedom in Italy offers an interpretation of a model of religious freedom that is not only a paradigm for many European experiences but also a possible interpretative parameter to better understand the dynamics of religious freedom between the two shores of the Mediterranean.

Religious Freedom
Religious Freedom

Author: Olʹga Breskai︠a︡

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004468085

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Introduction: Religious freedom : social-scientific approaches / Olga Breskaya, Roger Finke, and Giuseppe Tiordan -- How does secularity "travel"? : toward a policy mobilities approach in the study of religious freedom / Efe Peker -- Religious freedom, legal activism and Muslim personal law in contemporary India : a sociological exploration of secularism / Anindita Chakrabarti -- Religious freedom and secularism in post-revolutionary Tunisia / Anna Grasso -- Religious pluralism, religious freedom and the secularization process in the Greek educational system / Alexandraos Sakellariou -- Regulating sincerity : religion, law, public policy, and the ambivalence of religious freedom in pluralist societies / Zaheeda P. Alibhai -- The religionization in Alevi culture : an exploratory study on spiritual leaders (Dedes) / Nuran Erol Işuk -- One, many or none : religious truth-claims and social perception of religious freedom / Olga Breskaya and Giuseppe Giordan -- Religious freedom in prisons : a case study from the Czech Republic / Jan Váně and Lukáš Dirga -- Organizations and religious restrictions : an international overview of the intersection of state and non-governmental organizations and religious groups / Dane R. Mataic and Kerby Goff -- Religious freedom between politics and policies : social and legal conflicts over Catholic religious education in Italy, 1984-1992 / Guillaume Silhol -- The measure of Cedaw : religion, religious freedom, and the rights of women / Barbara R. Walters -- Religious freedom and religionization of world politics : viewed of EU political and religious representatives / Chrysa K. Almpani.

Merchant Cultures
Merchant Cultures

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9004506578

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The way merchants trade, think about business and represent commerce in art forms define merchant culture. The world between 1500 and 1800 encompassed different merchant cultures that stood alone and in contact with others. Culture, power relations and institutions framed similarities and differences and outlined the global outcome of these exchanges.

The Pope and Mussolini
The Pope and Mussolini

Author: David I. Kertzer

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 0198716168

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The compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.

The Legal Treatment of Muslim Minorities in Italy
The Legal Treatment of Muslim Minorities in Italy

Author: Andrea Pin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1134807686

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Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe. In Italy, however, Islam has met a unique model of state neutrality, religious freedom and church and state collaboration. This book gives a detailed description of the legal treatment of Muslims in Italy, contrasting it with other European states and jurisprudence, and with wider global tendencies that characterize the treatment of Islam. Through focusing on a series of case studies, the author argues that the relationship between church and state in Italy, and more broadly in Europe, should be reconsidered both to secure religious freedom and general welfare. Working on the concepts of religious freedom, state neutrality, and relationship between church and state, Andrea Pin develops a theoretical framework that combines the state level with the supranational level in the form of the European Convention of Human Rights, which ultimately shapes a unitary but flexible understanding of pluralism. This approach should better accommodate not just Muslims' needs, but religious needs in general in Italy and elsewhere.

State, Religion and Muslims
State, Religion and Muslims

Author: Melek Saral

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 9004421513

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State, Religion and Muslims: Between Discrimination and Protection at the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Levels brings together academics from different disciplines and offers an in-depth analysis of discrimination in specific areas of life which affects Muslims in Western countries. The volume undertakes a comprehensive examination of the discriminatory practices across 12 countries while situating them in their institutional frameworks. Exploring critical aspects of discrimination against Muslims – in areas such as education, employment, exercise of religion, state relations with religious communities as well as hate crime and hate speech – the volume shows the prevalence of individual, structural and institutional discrimination against Muslims living in Western countries. Contributors are: Amina Easat-Daas, Andrea Pin, Beesan Sarrouh, Camille Vallier, Dieter Schiendlauer, Eva Brems, Ineke van der Valk, Ksenija Šabec, Maja Pucelj, Mario Peucker, Mosa Sayed, Nesa Zimmermann, Niels Valdemar Vinding and Safa ben Saad.

The Travail of Religious Liberty
The Travail of Religious Liberty

Author: Roland H. Bainton

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1556358768

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The pages of history are filled with stories of men and women burned at the stake, exiled, and ostracized in the name of religion. Thus Roland Bainton explains the struggle within the Christian Church to achieve religious liberty by telling, in popular biographical style, nine stories of sincere people--both persecutors and persecuted--who took part in the struggle. Bainton's biographies begin with Thomas of Torquemada, instrument of the Roman Catholic Inquisition, and with John Calvin who active in the burning of Michael Servetus. He then covers how such persecution brought about the toleration controversy of the sixteenth century, when SŽbastian Castellio struck his blow for religious liberty, when Hollander David Joris made a mystical approach to tolerance, and when Franciscan Bernardino Ochino believed in the cultivation of the inner life. Finally he concentrates on the champions of religious liberty in the 17th Century: John Milton, Roger Williams and John Locke.

Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy
Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy

Author: Orazio Condorelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-02

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1000079198

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Firmly rooted on Roman and canon law, Italian legal culture has had an impressive influence on the civil law tradition from the Middle Ages to present day, and it is rightly regarded as "the cradle of the European legal culture." Along with Justinian’s compilation, the US Constitution, and the French Civil Code, the Decretum of Master Gratian or the so-called Glossa ordinaria of Accursius are one of the few legal sources that have influenced the entire world for centuries. This volume explores a millennium-long story of law and religion in Italy through a series of twenty-six biographical chapters written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Italy and around the world. The chapters range from the first Italian civilians and canonists, Irnerius and Gratian in the early twelfth century, to the leading architect of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI. Between these two bookends, this volume offers notable case studies of familiar civilians like Bartolo, Baldo, and Gentili and familiar canonists like Hostiensis, Panormitanus, and Gasparri but also a number of other jurists in the broadest sense who deserve much more attention especially outside of Italy. This diversity of international and methodological perspectives gives the volume its unique character. The book will be essential reading for academics working in the areas of Legal History, Law and Religion, and Constitutional Law and will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between religion and law in the era of globalization.

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe

Author: Jørgen S. Nielsen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9004225218

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The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides up-to-date factual information and statistics of the situation of Muslims in 46 European countries.

Law and International Religious Freedom
Law and International Religious Freedom

Author: Pasquale Annicchino

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1351858025

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This book analyzes the promotion and protection of freedom of religion in the international arena with a particular focus on the role and influence of the US International Religious Freedom Act, 1998. It also investigates the impact of the IRFA on the legislation and policies of third countries and the EU. The book develops the story of the protection of religious freedom through foreign policy by showing how religious laws affect and shape a more communitarian dimension of the notion of freedom of religion which stands in contrast with a traditionally Western individualistic understanding of the right. It is argued that it is still possible to defend the unstable category of freedom of religion or belief especially when major violations are at stake. The book presents a balanced contribution to the academic debate on the promotion and protection of religious freedom. The comparative approach and interdisciplinary methodology make it a valuable resource for academics, students and policy-makers in Law, International Relations and Strategic Studies.