The European Court of Human Rights and minority religions: messages generated and messages received, eds. Effie Fokas and James T. Richardson, (2018) Abingdon: Routledge. This book includes a collection of studies focused on engagements of religious minorities with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Beginning with an introduction of the global importance of the […]
“Pluralism and Religious Freedom. Insights from Orthodox Europe” by Effie Fokas in eds. Elisabeth A. Diamantopoulou and Louis-Leon Christians, Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights in Europe. Theology, Law and Religion in Interaction, (2018) Oxford: Peter Lang More information about the book is available here: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/61649
Since the early 1990s, Greece’s record at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over religious freedoms violations has been exceptional. More than simply indicating the challenges Greece has been facing in the treatment of religious diversity and the simultaneous prevalence of the Christian Orthodox Church, these convictions by the ECtHR have exposed a further […]
Working Paper 49/2014 written by Dr Effie Fokas draws on findings of the European Commission/Marie Curie Framework – funded research project entitled ‘Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Majority Orthodox Contexts’ (PLUREL), based at ELIAMEP and conducted between 2010 and 2013. Here insights arising from the project regarding limitations to religious freedoms in majority Orthodox contexts […]