Religion in public spaces : a European perspective / edited by Silvio Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli. - Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, c2012. - xv, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cultural diversity and law in association with RELIGARE .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religion and rethinking the public-private divide : introduction / Marie-Claire Foblets -- Public and private, a moving border. : a legal-historical perspective / Kjell A. Modeer -- Socio-historical perspectives on the public and the private spheres / Adam Seligman -- The public-private divide on drift : what, if any, is its importance for analyzing limits of associational religious freedoms? / Veit Bader -- Religious freedom and the public-private divide : a broken promise? / Alessandro Ferrari -- The'public' and the'private' in the common law and civil law traditions : legal traditions as reasoning templates for the regulation of religion? / Jean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiens & Noura Karazivan -- Contested normative cultures : gendered perspectives on religions and the public/private divide / Hanne Petersen -- Religion in the European public spaces : a legal overview / Silvio Ferrari -- From front-office to back-office: religious dress crossing the public-private divide in the workplace / Katayoun Alidadi -- Religious dress codes : the Turkish case / A. Emre Oktem & Mehmet C. Uzun -- Religious dress codes : the United Kingdom case / Javier Garcia Oliva -- Religious dress codes : the Italian case / Sabrina Pastorelli -- Religious dress codes : the Bulgarian case / Maya Kosseva & Iva Kyurkchieva -- Comparing burqa debates in Europe: sartorial styles, religious prescriptions and political ideologies / Sara Silvestri -- The right to establish and maintain places of worship : the developments of its normative content under international human rights law / Noel G. Villaroman -- The places of worship in France and the public-private divide / Anne Fornerod --'Stopp minarett' : the controversy over the building of minarets in Switzerland : religious f/reedom versus collective identity / Vincenzo Pacillo -- Places of worship : Between public and private : a comparison between Bulgaria, Italy and the Netherlands / Tymen van der Ploeg.

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Freedom of religion--Europe.
Religion in the workplace--Law and legislation--Europe.
Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe.