Religion and Law in the European Union
Abstrak
All three major European supranational institutions—the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe (CoE), and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)—acknowledge the importance of religion within European history and culture and give special recognition to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. As has been argued elsewhere, the attitude of both the EU and the CoE to ‘religion’ is characterized by seven principles—the value of religion and of non-religion; subsidiarity; religious freedom; religious equality and non-discrimination; the autonomy of religious associations; cooperation with religion; and the special protection of religion by means of privileges and exemptions—principles that may be induced from their laws and other regulatory instruments. In doing so, they seek to maintain a balance between Europe’s religious, humanist, and cultural elements. How that balance and recognition operate in practice, however, is far from clear-cut and is highly sensitive to individual circumstances.
Penulis (2)
N. Doe
F. Cranmer
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198834267.013.16
- Akses
- Open Access ✓