Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte Jr. -- Acknowledgements / Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte Jr. -- Preface / Jimmy Carter -- Introduction Legal Dimensions of Religious Human Rights: Constitutional Texts / Johan D. van der Vyver -- Perspectives on Religious Liberty: A Comparative Framework / W. Cole Durham Jr. -- Studying “Religious Human Rights”: Methodological Foundations / David Little -- Religious Human Rights Under The United Nations / Natan Lerner -- The Role of Secular Non-Governmental Organizations in the Cultivation and Understanding of Religious Human Rights / Michael Roan -- The Cultivation and Protection of Religious Human Rights: The Role of the Media / James Finn -- The Impact of Religious Rules on Public Life in Germany / Martin Heckel -- Religious Liberty in the United Kingdom / Peter Cumper -- The Main Problems of Religious Freedom in Eastern Europe / Tamás Földesi -- Religious Human Rights in Post-Communist Balkan Countries / Paul Mojzes -- Religious Rights in Russia at a Time of Tumultuous Transition: A Historical Theory / Harold J. Berman -- Adjudicating Rights of Conscience Under the European Convention on Human Rights / T. Jeremy Gunn -- Religious Human Rights and the Principle of Legal Pluralism in the Middle East / Said Amir Arjomand -- Religious Human Rights in the State of Israel / Asher Maoz -- Africa’s Search For Religious Human Rights Through Returning to Wells of Living Water / John S. Pobee -- Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context / Makau Wa Mutua -- Religious Human Rights in South Africa / Lourens M. du Plessis -- Religious Human Rights in Latin America / Paul E. Sigmund -- Religious Human Rights in Central America / Stanley Muschett Ibarra and M. Christian Green -- The American Constitutional Experiment in Religious Human Rights: The Perennial Search for Principles / John Witte Jr. -- A Draft Model Law on Freedom of Religion, With Commentary / Dinah Shelton and Alexandre Kiss -- The Tensions and the Ideals / John T. Noonan Jr. -- Bibliography of Books and Articles Cited / Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte Jr. -- Biographical Sketches of Contributors / Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte Jr. -- Index / Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte Jr..

In this `Dickensian century' of human rights, the world has cultivated the best of religious rights protections, but witnessed the worst of religious rights abuses. In this volume, Jimmy Carter, John T. Noonan, Jr., and a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights laws and practices of the international community and of selected states in the Atlantic continents. This volume and its companion Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University.

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