Religious Symbols in Public Functions : Unveiling State Neutrality: A Comparative Analysis of Dutch, English and French Justifications for Limiting the Freedom of Public Officials to Display Religious Symbols

Van Ooijen, Hana M. A. E.

ISBN 10: 1780681194 / ISBN 13: 9781780681191

Published by Intersentia, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religious Symbols in Public Functions : Unveiling State Neutrality: A Comparative Analysis of Dutch, English and French Justifications for Limiting the Freedom of Public Officials to Display Religious Symbols
• Publisher: Intersentia
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780681194
• ISBN 13: 9781780681191
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Religious symbols have generated controversy in many circles, be they religious or secular, public or private, and within or outside academia. This book singles out a particularly contentious issue: religious symbols in public functions and focuses on the judiciary, the police and public education.

Review

Hana van Ooijen holds an LL.M. degree in international and European law from Utrecht University. She has worked at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights as a Ph.D. researcher and lecturer. The comparative parts of the research have been conducted at Oxford Brookes University, the PRISME centre of the Universite de Strasbourg and the CREDOF centre of the Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre. Since 2010, she has been the book review editor of Religion & Human Rights.