State neutrality : background history; concepts; principle -- Civil society : pluralism, multiculturalism, and the church/state interface -- International treaties, conventions, protocols, and the ECtHR -- The US and the church/state wall -- Canada and Bijuralism -- England and the established church -- France and Laicite -- Germany and the Vaterland -- Israel : halakha and Zionism -- Themes of jurisdictional commonality and difference -- State neutrality : a work in progress?
Summary:
"Considers the similarities and differences in the relationship between Church and State, on a range of contemporary matters, in six countries. These - the Part II jurisdictions - are chosen on the basis of the contrasts they offer: the US and Canada, built on the contribution of immigrants but with sizeable indigenous populations, have distinctively different constitutional interpretations of that relationship; England and Wales and its five centuries of an 'established Church'; France where laicite resolutely dictates the place of religion; Germany which struggles to overcome its Nazi past and re-integrate its eastern Communist citizens; and the outlier, Israel "a Jewish State for a Jewish people", established and maintained to provide a distinctly non-neutral protection to a specific religion and one where Judaism and the State are, seemingly, moving ever closer to a theocratic relationship. All six jurisdictions are modern democracies and all are signatory nations to international treaties that require States to adopt a neutral approach to religion"-- Provided by publisher.
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