This book will be of particular interest to students and academics in the disciplines of law, human rights, political science, sociology and education, but will also be of considerable value to policy makers and educators as well.

This book analyses the relationship between the state, individuals and religious symbols, considering the three main forms of religious expression, symbols that believers wear on their body, symbols in the public space such as religious ...

Written in accessible language, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe.

This book singles out a particularly contentious issue: religious symbols in public functions, focusing on the judiciary, the police, and public education.

Clearly presenting the case-law concerning Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, this is a lively and accessible analysis of a key issue in contemporary society: whether there is a human right to wear a religious symbol and ...

The paper is concerned with religious symbols in Germany.

This is especially true in the digital age as online cultures have transformed how information is spread, how we imagine our communities, build alliances, and produce shared meaning.

Increasingly, debates about religious symbols in the public space are reformulated as human rights questions and put before national and international judges.

Refashioning Secularisms in France and Turkey documents how, in both countries, devout women have contested bans on headscarves, pointing to how these are inconsistent with the ‘real’ spirit of secularism.