The Right to Wear Religious Symbols
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Right to Wear Religious Symbols
By (Author) D. Hill
By (author) D. Whistler
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Pivot
2nd October 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Social and political philosophy
Politics and government
Philosophy of religion
342.240852137
Physical Properties
Hardback
128
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
2912g
Description
Clearly presenting the case-law concerning Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, this is a lively and accessible analysis of a key issue in contemporary society: whether there is a human right to wear a religious symbol and how far any such right extends.
Author Bio
Daniel J. Hill is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is author of Divinity and Maximal Greatness (2005) and of Christian Philosophy: A-Z (2007). He is Secretary of the Tyndale Fellowship's Study Group in Philosophy of Religion.
Daniel Whistler is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is author of Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language (2013), andco-editor of After the Postsecular and the Postmodern (2010) and Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs (2011). He is currently editing the Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Theology (forthcoming).
