Freedom of Religion, Secularism, and Human Rights
Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law Series

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.

Nehal Bhuta holds the established Chair of Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining Edinburgh Law School, he held the Chair of Public International Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and was a co-director of the Academy of European Law. He is a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Constellations, and Humanity. He edits, with Anthony Pagden and Benjamin Straumann, the Oxford University Press series in the History and Theory of International Law.