Political and Judicial Rights through the Prism of Religious Belief

This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other. At a time when the so-called ‘checks and balances’ that guarantee the vulnerable equilibrium between legislative, executive and judicial branches of governance are i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sterkens, Carl (Editor), Ziebertz, Hans-Georg (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Religion and Human Rights
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Religion and political and judicial rights (Carl Sterkens)
  • Chapter 1. Attitude toward political rights and religious affiliation, experience, saliency and openness: An empirical enquiry among students in England and Wales (Leslie J Francis)
  • Chapter 2. Religion and political rights in the Spanish context: looking for developments (Lluis Oviedo)
  • Chapter 3. Religion for the political rights of immigrants and refugees? An empirical exploration among Italian students (Francesco Zaccaria)
  • Chapter 4. The Role of Values and Political Orientation in Human Rights (In-) Tolerance – The Croatian Youth Case (Damir Miloš)
  • Chapter 5. Religion, political and juridical rights in post-communist, post-atheist spaces. An empirical analysis among youth in Romania (Silviu E. Rogobete)
  • Chapter 6. Young Palestinian Muslim Support for Judicial and Political Human Rights (Raymond J. Webb)
  • Chapter 7. Extending Political Rights to Immigrants and Refugees. Empirical study among Christian, Muslim and Hindu students in the context of Indian secularism and the politics of inclusion (Francis-Vincent Anthony)
  • Chapter 8. Judicial Rights among Youth in Tanzania (Clement Fumbo)
  • Chapter 9. Predictors of judicial human rights’ attitudes of adolescents in Nigeria (Modestus Adimekwe)
  • Chapter 10. Social conflicts, religion and human rights support. A study of young Christians and Muslims in Scandinavia (Pål Ketil Botvar)
  • Chapter 11. Attitudes towards refugee rights in thirteen countries. A multi-level analysis of the impact and interaction of individual and socio-cultural predictors (Alexander Unser)