Religious Pluralism and Law in Contemporary Brazil
This book represents a unique contribution to understanding the interactions between law and religion in contemporary Brazil. It analyzes how the regulation of religions according to the classical notion of secularism has become a source of tensions since the 1990s. Against this background, the resp...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Law and Religion in a Global Context
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Religious Pluralism and Law in Contemporary Brazil
- Part I Pluralism: minority rights, religious freedom and secularism
- Religion and Laicity in Dispute: Two Categories Under Construction in Brazil’s legal Debate on Religious Education in Public Schools
- Evangelical jurists and human rights in Brazil: a case study of the National Association of Evangelical Jurists (ANAJURE)
- Formalizing religious intolerance in police records: a picture of a (de)construction problem
- Evangelicals Against the Criminalization of Homophobia: The “Christian Majority" and the Dispute Over Public Morality
- “It is not solved just by writing it down on paper”: patrimonialization policies and the religious use of ayahuasca as a Brazilian intangible cultural heritage
- Part II Human Rights as Language
- Controversies in Brazil’s Supreme Court over when human life begins
- Quilombola communities and the right to land ownership: notes on a legal controversy in the Supreme Federal Court
- Humanrights and their policy-visibility in producing a public Islam in Brazil
- Human rights and works of the imagination: an ethnography of the first ordained transgender reverend in Latin America