Deconstructing 'Legal' Religion in Strasbourg

Peroni, Lourdes

doi:10.1093/ojlr/rwt047

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“…Notes 5. Article 9's interiorised definition of religion, which guarantees freedom of belief but offers only qualified protection to its manifestation, makes proving a violation particularly difficult (Peroni 2014;McIvor 2015). 6.…”

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Human Rights and Broken Cisterns: Counterpublic Christianity and Rights-based Discourse in Contemporary England

McIvor

2018

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Although human rights are often framed as the result of centuries of Western Christian thought, many English evangelicals are wary of the U.K.'s recent embrace of rightsbased law. Yet this wariness does not preclude their use of human rights instruments in the courts. Drawing upon fieldwork with Christian lobbyists and lawyers in London, I argue that evangelical activists instrumentalise rights-based law so as to undermine the universalist claims on which they rest. By constructing themselves as a marginalised counterpublic whose rights are frequently 'trumped' by the competing claims of others, they hope to convince their fellow Britons that a society built upon the logic of equal rights cannot hope to deliver the human flourishing it promises. Given the salience of contemporary political conservatism, I call for further ethnographic research into counterpublic movements, and offer my interlocutors' instrumentalisation of human rights as a critique of the inconsistencies of secular law.

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Human Rights and Broken Cisterns: Counterpublic Christianity and Rights-based Discourse in Contemporary England

McIvor

2018

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“…It should be noted that the recent spate of Article 9 decisions seem to be based not so much on protecting individual religious freedom, as on preserving the right of religious organizations to exist (Garlicki ; cf. Evans ; Kiviorg ; Peroni for criticisms of this approach). This distinction may help explain why so many Article 9 cases derive from Central and Eastern Europe where serious efforts have been mounted to force minority religious groups to curtail their activities, or even cease operating.…”

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Managing Religion and the Judicialization of Religious Freedom

Richardson

2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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Religious freedom is a highly valued goal for many citizens and political leaders around the world, especially in Western‐oriented nations. Much ink has been spilled in defense of religious freedom and many have waxed eloquent about the virtues of promoting religious freedom. Most constitutions and other international documents around the world guarantee religious freedom even if those guarantees are sometimes honored in the breach. Why this focus on religious freedom is occurring and how it is being addressed are the focus of this article.

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“…Within the sociology of law, the discussions around the legal definition of religion in its relation to religious freedom (Jamal, 2015;Sandberg, 2014) move scholars to consider what kind of religion may or may not be protected through law (Sullivan, 2005) and how to establish specific socio-legal criteria to produce a more integrative approach to the legal protection of religious freedom (Peroni, 2014). Moreover, the sociology of religious freedom contributed to understanding normative dynamics between positive law and social norms, explaining how the institutional process of the juridification of religion (Cumper and Lewis, 2019) is interlinked with the social norm-making of individuals and groups (Breskaya et al, 2018).…”

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“…En sociologie du droit, les discussions autour de la définition juridique à donner à la religion, dans sa relation avec la liberté religieuse (Jamal, 2015 ;Sandberg, 2014), ont conduit les chercheurs à examiner quel type de religion pourrait ou non bénéficier d'une protection légale (Sullivan, 2005), ainsi qu'à déterminer les critères socio-légaux spécifiques qui rendent la protection de la liberté religieuse plus intégrative (Peroni, 2014). De plus, la sociologie de la liberté religieuse a contribué à éclairer les dynamiques normatives qui ont lieu entre le droit positif et les normes sociales, mettant dès lors en évidence les processus institutionnels de judiciarisation de la religion (Cumper et Lewis, 2019) en lien avec la production des normes sociales par les individus et les groupes sociaux (Breskaya, Giordan et Richardson, 2018).…”

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