Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Andrés Constantin -- Introduction / Andrés Constantin -- Chapter 1 Religious Lawfare: A Challenge to Liberal Democracies / Andrés Constantin -- Chapter 2 Waging Religious Lawfare through Conscience-Based Claims / Andrés Constantin -- Chapter 3 Religious Lawfare: A Threat to Democracy and Human Rights / Andrés Constantin -- Chapter 4 Legal Efforts to Counter Religious Lawfare / Andrés Constantin -- Chapter 5 Religious Lawfare at Play: Conscientious Objection in Healthcare / Andrés Constantin -- Chapter 6 A Path Forward: Mitigating the Impact of Religious Lawfare / Andrés Constantin -- Conclusion / Andrés Constantin -- Back Matter -- Table of Cases / Andrés Constantin -- Table of Instruments / Andrés Constantin -- Bibliography / Andrés Constantin.

This book explores the influence of religious lawfare through the use of conscience-based claims—assertions rooted in individual or group religious or moral convictions—on shaping public policy and law, and their repercussions for democracy and human rights. It unveils a framework that not only defines but also systematizes uses of conscience-based claims, challenging prevalent notions about the motivations and actors behind religious lawfare. By contextualizing this expansion historically, it identifies new uses of these claims as undemocratic and explores global efforts to regulate them through international human rights and comparative law. Ultimately, the book offers a normative guide for handling conscience-based claims in liberal democracies.

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