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Religious Offence and Human Rights: The Implications of Defamation of Religions: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, cartea 106

Autor Lorenz Langer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2016
Should international law be concerned with offence to religions and their followers? Even before the 2005 publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Muslim States have endeavoured to establish some reputational protection for religions on the international level by pushing for recognition of the novel concept of 'defamation of religions'. This study recounts these efforts as well as the opposition they aroused, particularly by proponents of free speech. It also addresses the more fundamental issue of how religion and international law may relate to each other. Historically, enforcing divine commands has been the primary task of legal systems, and it still is in numerous municipal jurisdictions. By analysing religious restrictions of blasphemy and sacrilege as well as international and national norms on free speech and freedom of religion, Lorenz Langer argues that, on the international level at least, religion does not provide a suitable rationale for legal norms.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107612204
ISBN-10: 1107612209
Pagini: 490
Ilustrații: 2 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction; Part I: 1. The Danish cartoons revisited; 2. Legal responses to religious insult; 3. The current legal framework; 4. Invention of new alternatives? The concept of defamation of religions before and after the cartoons; 5. Defining defamation; Part II: 6. First principles: norms and norm-rationales; 7. Norm-rationales for the regulation of speech; 8. The religious rationale; 9. Religion, its defamation, and international law.

Recenzii

'Langer provides one of the most compelling accounts of the background to, and story of, the 'defamation of religions' debate across the UN throughout the 2000s … This book needs to be read.' Malcolm Evans, Ecclesiastical Law Journal

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Descriere

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy? This book examines this question.