The headscarf controversy : secularism and freedom of religion
著者
書誌事項
The headscarf controversy : secularism and freedom of religion
（Religion and global politics）
Oxford University Press, c2012
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 multiculturalism, and by issues such as Islamophobia, the "war on terror, " and security concerns. She shows how these influences have resulted in a failure on the part of many Western governments to
recognize and protect essential individual freedoms.
Employing a critical legal theory perspective to the headscarf controversy, Elver argues that law can be used to change underlying social conditions shaping the role of religion, and also the position of women in modern society. The Headscarf Controversy demonstrates how changes in law across nations can be used to restore state commitments to human rights.
目次
- I. Point of Departure
- Part 1: Turkey
- II. Nature of the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey: Popular Discourse
- III. Understanding a Complex History
- IV. The Role of the European Court of Human Rights
- Part 2: Europe and the United States
- V. Anti-Islamic Discourses in the West
- VI. France
- VII Germany
- VIII. The United States
- IX. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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