 | Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice Subjects: Humanities; Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; European (EC) Law; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; Legal Theory; European Politics; Religion; Socio-Legal Studies; Political Philosophy; Sociology & Social Policy; Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics; Democracy; Sociology of Religion; Religion in Context; Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the leading legal paradigms of our time. Freedom of religion occupies a pivotal position in rights discourses, and the principles supporting its interpretation receive increasing attention from courts and legislative bodies. This book critically evaluates religious pluralism as an emerging legal principle arising from attempts to define the boundaries of freedom of religion. It examines religious pluralism as an underlying aspect of different human rights regimes and constitutional traditions. It is, however, the static and liberal shape religious pluralism has assumed that is taken up critically here. In order to address how difference is vulnerable to elimination, rather than recognition, the book takes up a contemporary ethics of alterity. More generally, and through its reconstruction of a more difference-friendly vision of religious pluralism, it tackles the problem of the role of rights in the era of diverse narratives of emancipation. Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a lecturer in Migration Law at the Australian National University College of Law, Australia. |
