“Religious American and Secular European Courts? A study of institutional cross-pollination” by Effie Fokas in ed. Titus Hjelm, Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years after The Sacred Canopy, (2018) London: Bloomsbury Academic, 135-155 In his 2005 National Interest article on ‘Religion and the West’, Peter Berger suggested that one of the variables distinguishing between a religious […]
Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45 (3-4) This special issue is devoted to an exploration of a disconnect between messages generated by the ECtHR through its case law and messages received at the grassroots level, in the domain of minority religious claims. Specifically, the contributions in this special issue critically assess some of the Court’s […]
Author: Effie Fokas Published in: Ed. Silvio Ferrari, Routledge Handbook of Law and Religion, (2015) Abingdon: Routledge, 59-74 Intersections between law and religion are increasingly permeating the public sphere. A brief consideration of the ‘controversial issues’ section of the present volume serves as a reminder of religion-related issues regulated by laws, on the one hand, and […]
Author: Effie Fokas Published in: Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2015, Vol. 4, No. 1, 54–74 Over the past 20 years the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has evolved into a conspicuous, often contentious, force in the multilevel battles over the place of religion in the European public sphere. In the light of […]
Author: Effie Fokas Published in: New Diversities, 2015, Vol. 17, No. 1, 47-62 Intersections between religion and law are increasingly permeating the public sphere. From burqa bans to same-sex marriage, a strong relationship between religion and national identity (whether ‘negative’, as in the French case, or ‘positive’ as in the Greek case), can often be […]
This book authored by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis is the first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation of Greek and Turkish nationalisms.The book argues that the shift to an increasingly religious paradigm in both countries can be explained in terms of the exigencies of consolidation and the need to appeal to grassroots elements and account […]
