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082	0	0	_a342.085 2 OHA
100	1		_aO'Halloran, Kerry,
245	1	0	_aState neutrality : the sacred, the secular, and equality law.
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bCambridge University Press, _c2021.
300			_a517 p. ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aChurch and state.
650		0	_aEcclesiastical law.
650		0	_aReligion and state.
650		0	_aFreedom of religion.
650		0	_aSecularism.
650		0	_aLaicism.
650		0	_aEquality before the law.
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