This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion and human rights in legal, theoretical, historical and political perspective. It brings together chapters from leading scholars of human rights, law and religion, political theory, religious studies and history, and provides insights into the state of the debate about the relationship between these concepts. Comparative in orientation, its chapters draw on constitutional and political discourses and experience not only from Western Europe and the United States, but also from India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.
This volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion, and human rights. The interdisciplinary chapters provide analysis into the state of the debate on the relationship between these areas. The volume draws on constitutional and political discourses from Western Europe, the US, India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.
