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This volume focuses on issues that have only recently come to the forefront of the discipline such as freedom from religion, ordination of homosexuals, apostasy, security and fundamentalism, issues that are linked to the common themes of secularism and globalization. Although these subjects are not new to the academic debate, they have become prominent in law and religion circles as a result of recent and rapid changes in society. The essays in this volume present multiple points of view, facilitate scholars in understanding this evolving discipline and act as a stimulus for further research.This collection gives the reader a sense of the key topics and current debates in law and religion and is of interest to law, politics, human rights, and religion scholars.

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Silvio Ferrari is Professor of Law and Religion, University of Milan and Honorary President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, Italy. Rinaldo Cristofori currently holds a Post Doc position at the University of Milan, Italy and is working on his monograph at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, USA. Rinaldo Christofori, Olivier Roy, John Witte Jr, M. Christian Green, Mark Juergensmeyer, Nathaniel Berman, Amos N. Guiora, Brett G. Scharffs, Silvio Ferrari, Nazila Ghanea, Jeremy Patrick, Roger Ballard, Alessandro Ferrari, Ralph Grillo, Andre J. Hoekema, Marcel Maussen, Prakash Shah, Mathias Rohe, Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens, P. Edge, Susan Moller Okin, Madhavi Sunder, Cass R. Sunstein, Shahrah Razavi, Anne Jenichen, Norman Doe, Anthony Jeremy, Frederick Mark Gedicks, W. Cole Durham, Ian Leigh, Rex J. Ahdar.

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