Faith in Courts

Human Rights Advocacy and the Transnational Regulation of Religion
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5099-4505-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

The judicialisation of religious freedom conflicts is long recognised. But to date, little has been written on the active role that religious actors and advocacy groups play in this process. This important book does just that. It examines how Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Sikhs, Evangelicals, Christian conservatives and their global support networks have litigated the right to freedom of religion at the European Court of Human Rights over the past 30 years. Drawing on in-depth interviews with NGOs, religious representatives, lawyers and legal experts, it is a powerful study of the social dynamics that shape transnational legal mobilisation and the ways in which legal mobilisation shapes discourses and conflict lines in the field of transnational law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harms, Lisa

Scott, Craig Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Transnationalisation, Judicialisation and the Regulation of Religion
From the National to the Transnational Regulation of Religion

Religious Freedom Advocacy in a Transnational Legal Field

Trajectories of Legal Mobilisation: Empirical Observations

Contributions
Chapter Outline

1. Fielding Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Sociological Approach to Transnational Legal Mobilisation

Social Movements and Legal Mobilisation

A Shift of Perspective: Mobilisation in (Transnational) Legal Fields

Methods and Data

2. Enacting the Liberal Script: Religious Transatlantic Networks and an Emerging Legal Field

From the Shadow of National Sovereignty to the Formation of a Transnational Legal Field

Jehovah's Witnesses and Evangelicals: Early Pioneers of Religious Freedom Litigation

Enacting the Liberal Frame of Religious Freedom

3. Constituting Identities: Sikhs between Symbolic Gains and Legal Marginalisation

Diaspora Politics and Legal Mobilisation

'Jurimetrics' of the Challenger: Fitting the Legal Niche

4. The Orthodoxy of the Powerful: Christians Fighting against Change

Federating Symbolic Capital

Defending Incumbency

Inequalities and Symbolic Boundaries

5. Endogenous Change in the Transnational Field: Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims and Christians' Recursive Mobilisation

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Expansion of Religious Freedoms

Muslims between Repeat Failure and Growing Activism

Conservative Christians' Pushback against Anti-Discrimination Norms

Conclusion: Faith in Rights or Right Faith?

Religious Freedom Mobilisation and the Governance of Religious
Diversity

Towards a Field-Theoretical Understanding of Legal Mobilisation?

Religious Freedom quo vadis? Current Developments and Future Research Perspectives

Über Autor(innen)

Harms, Lisa
Lisa Harms is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Münster, Germany.