The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law

by Evans, Malcolm; Petkoff, Peter; Rivers, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780199684229
• ISBN10: 0199684227
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Malcolm Evans, Professor of Public International Law, University of Bristol,Peter Petkoff, Fellow of the Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, Oxford

Malcolm Evans OBE is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. He is a member of the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe's Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion and Belief, and the author of many publications on international law, human rights, and religion.

Peter Petkoff is a Lecturer at Brunel University and a Fellow of the Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College in Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Malcolm Evans and Peter Petkoff
1. Protecting the Freedom of Religion or Belief under International Law: What Are The Options?, Malcolm Evans
2. Rights Critique and Rights Apologetics - Religious Perspectives and Rights Discourses in the International Organisations, Peter Petkoff
3. Is Freedom of Religion or Belief Redundant?, Nazila Ghanea
4. Challenges for the Human Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief, Heiner Bielefeldt
5. Rights to Religion and Rights to Culture in International Human Rights Law: Convergences and Divergences, Alexandra Xanthaki
6. Religious Conversions: International Law, Ethics and Practice, Ilias Bantekas
7. Thirty Years 1981 Declaration as Reflected in Twenty-five Years Mandate Practice of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Michael Wiener
8. Incitement to Religious Hatred and the 1981 Declaration, Natan Lerner
9. The International Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: Patterns of Erosion', Cole Durham
10. The Organisation of Security and Co-operation in Europe and Freedom of Religion or Belief: Losing the Focus on a Core Fundamental Freedom', Thomas Krapf
11. International Law, Divergence, and Globalization', Christopher McCrudden
12. Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Policy of the European Union - a View from the US Commission for International Religious Freedom', Knox Thames
13. Conclusion, Malcolm Evans and Peter Petkoff