Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism - A Comparative Overview

This book is devoted to the studyof the interplaybetween religious rules and State law. It exploreshow State recognition of religious rules can affect the degree of legaldiversity that is available to citizens and why such recognition sometimeresults in more individual and collective freedom and sometime in a threat toequality of citizens before the law. The first part of the bookcontains a few contributions that place this discussion within the wider debateon legal pluralism. While Statelaw and