Headscarf Controversy Secularism and Freedom of Religion

Name: Headscarf Controversy Secularism and Freedom of Religion
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ISBN: 9780199367931

ISBN-10: 0199367930

ISBN-13: 9780199367931

Edition: 2014

Authors: Hilal Elver

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Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights.After evaluating political actions and court decisions from the national level of individual governments to the international sphere of the European Court of Human Rights, Elver concludes that judges and legislators are increasingly influenced by social pressures concerning immigration and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English