TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Halloran,Kerry
TI  - State neutrality : the sacred, the secular, and equality law
SN  - 9781108481595
U1  - 342.085 2 OHA 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Ecclesiastical law
KW  - Religion and state
KW  - Freedom of religion
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Laicism
KW  - Equality before the law
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "considers the similarities and differences in the relationship between Church and State, on a range of contemporary matters, in six countries. These - the Part II jurisdictions - are chosen on the basis of the contrasts they offer: the US and Canada, built on the contribution of immigrants but with sizeable indigenous populations, have distinctively different constitutional interpretations of that relationship; England and Wales and its five centuries of an 'established Church'; France where laïcité resolutely dictates the place of religion; Germany which struggles to overcome its Nazi past and re-integrate its eastern Communist citizens; and the outlier, Israel "a Jewish State for a Jewish people", established and maintained to provide a distinctly non-neutral protection to a specific religion and one where Judaism and the State are, seemingly, moving ever closer to a theocratic relationship. All six jurisdictions are modern democracies and all are signatory nations to international treaties that require States to adopt a neutral approach to religion"--
ER  -