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'This book poses a substantial challenge to those who would limit religious freedom in Europe by banning Muslim women's full-face covering, commonly called burqa. The authors place the legal issues in a broader political, social and cultural context. In so doing they expose the questionable grounds for banning the burqa in France and Belgium and of proposals elsewhere.'Jorgen S. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark'This volume is a milestone of legal and sociological research regarding one of the most heated European debates on religion in public space. It follows a most welcome and urgently needed pragmatic approach in accordance with European guarantees of human rights - a benchmark for future reflections.'Mathias Rohe, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany

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Alessandro Ferrari teaches Law and Religion and Comparative Religious Laws at the University of Insubria (Como-Varese) and is also a member of the Groupe Societes, Religions, Laicites (GSRL-CNRS/Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Sorbonne) and of Centre Prisme Politique, Religion, Institutions et Societes : Mutations Europeennes of Strasbourg. He is the coordinator of the Inter-University project 'New Religious Presences' (www.fidr.it ) and member of the Conferenza Permanente Religioni, Cultura e Integrazione at the Italian Ministry for International Cooperation and Integration. His main research interests focus on the present changes of the right of religious freedom in the globalized context. His latest book is Diritto e Religione nell'Islam Mediterraneo (Law and Religion in Mediterranean Islam) (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012). Sabrina Pastorelli is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Law - section of Ecclesiastical and Canon Law - University of Milan, Faculty of Law. She is also a member of the Groupe Societes, Religions, Laicites (GSRL-CNRS/Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Sorbonne) and the Centre Politique, Religion, Institutions et Societes : Mutations Europeennes (PRISME-CNRS/University of Strasbourg). She teaches sociology of religion and political sociology at the University of Caen. Her research interests include sociology of religion; new religious movements; law and religion in the Europe; religious education; regulation of religious pluralism; state public policy and religion. She is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), the Association internationale des sociologues de langue francaise (AISLF), the Italian Sociological Association (AIS), the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR). Alessandro Ferrari, Sabrina Pastorelli, Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz, Letizia Mancini, Alessandro Ferrari, Anne Fornerod, Mark Hill, Adriaan Overbeeke, Agustin Motilla, Jogchum Vrielink, Saila Ouald Chaib, Eva Brems, Lisbet Christoffersen, Jorn Thielmann, Kathrin Vorholzer, Ralph Grillo, Prakash Shah, Daniele Ferrari, Maleiha Malik.

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