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dc.contributor.authorMCCREA, Ronan
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-15T16:37:29Z
dc.date.available2015-01-15T16:37:29Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationOxford : Oxford University Press, 2014en
dc.identifier.isbn9780198713944
dc.identifier.isbn0198713940
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/34180
dc.descriptionPaperback edition of the book published in 2010 (ISBN 9780199595358)
dc.description.abstractRonan McCrea offers the first comprehensive account of the role of religion within the public order of the European Union. He examines the facilitation and protection of individual and institutional religious freedom in EU law and the means through which the Union facilitates religious input and influence over law. Identifying the limitations on religious influence over law and politics that have been required by the Union, it demonstrates how such limitations have been identified as fundamental elements of the public order and prerequisites EU membership. The Union seeks to balance its predominantly Christian religious heritage with an equally strong secular and humanist by facilitating religion as a form of cultural identity while simultaneously limiting its political influence. Such balancing takes place in the context of the Union's limited legitimacy and its commitment to respect for Member State cultural autonomy. Deference towards the cultural role of religion at Member State level enables culturally-entrenched religions to exercise a greater degree of influence within the Union's public order than "outsider" faiths that lack a comparable cultural role. Placing the Union's approach to religion in the context of broader historical and sociological trends around religion in Europe and of contemporary debates around secularism, equal treatment, and the role of Islam in Europe, McCrea sheds light on the interaction between religion and EU law in the face of a shifting religious demographic.en
dc.description.tableofcontents-- Table of Cases -- Table of Official Declarations, Resolutions, and Reports -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An Identity-based, Balance-focused Approach -- 3. Features of the Balance between Religious, Cultural, and Humanist Influences -- 4. Proper Balance: Cultural Religion, Political Religion, and Individual Autonomy -- 5. The Chapters -- 2. Europe’s Religious Inheritance: Religion, Law, and Identity in Contemporary Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Legacy of Christianity and Secularization -- 3. The Post-secularization Role of Religion in Contemporary Europe -- 3.1 Europe as a Secular Exception -- 3.2 The Post-secularization Political and Legal Role of Religion -- 3.3 Religion and Identity -- 4. Religious Practice, Belief, and Infl uence in Europe: The Current Situation -- 4.1 Practice and Belief -- 4.2 Declining Infl uence over Law and Politics -- 4.3 Continuing Role in National Identity -- 4.4 Constitutional and Institutional Position -- 4.5 Service Provision: Religion and Education -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. Balance, Inheritance, and Religion as a Basis of Law in the Public Order of the European Union -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Religion as a Source of the Union Constitutional Values -- 3. Recognition of the Role of Religion in Law-making -- 4. The Pluralist Public Morality of EU Law -- 5. Limitations on Public Morality within EU Law -- 5.1 Consistency with a Common Ethical Template -- 5.2 The Importance of Balance -- ‘Fair Balance’ and the Autonomy and Equality of the Individual -- 5.4 Public Morality and Perspectives Contrary to Common European Norms -- 6. Conclusion -- 4. Religion as Identity and the Fundamental Rights Obligations of the EU 103 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rationales for Protecting Religious Freedom in -- Contemporary Europe -- 3. The Scope of Freedom of Religion in EU Law as Part of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Commitments -- 4. Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights --Relating to Religious Freedom -- 4.1 Article 9 -- 4.2 Individual Religion Freedom as a Private Right -- 4.3 Institutional Religious Freedom -- 4.4 Religion as Part of the State -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. The Regulation of Religion in the Single Market -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dual Approach to Religion in the Market -- 2.1 Religion as a Market Choice -- 2.2 Protection of Religion from the Market -- 2.3 Reconciliation of Religious Rights with Established -- Norms and Structures -- 3. Cultural Autonomy, Single Market Law, and Religion -- 3.1 Defi nition of Culture in EU Law -- 3.2 Culture as Discrimination between Religions -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. Competing Identities Limiting Religious Influence within the EU Legal Order -- Introduction -- 2. Enlargement and Religion in the Public Sphere -- 2.1 Enlargement, Conditionality, and Human Rights -- 2.2 Romania and Homosexuality -- 2.3 Turkey and Adultery -- 2.4 A Difference in Approach? -- 3. Migration, Integration, and the EU -- 3.1 The EU’s ‘Basic Principles on Integration’ -- 3.2 The Refugee, Long-Term Residents, and Family Reunifi cation Directives -- 4. Developments at Member State Level -- 4.1 The Netherlands -- 4.2 Germany -- 4.3 France -- 4.4 Other Member States -- 5. Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion -- 1. Religion and Humanism: The TwoPillars of the EU’s Public Order -- 2. The Effects of an Identity-based Approach to Religion -- 3. Competing Identities Limiting Religious Infl uence within the EU Legal Order -- 4. The Problems, Power, and Limits of Religion’s Cultural Role -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.titleReligion and the public order of the European Unionen
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