MINELRES: Newsletter: New book on the legal status of religious minorities in the European space

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Human Rights Without Frontiers Int'l

Newsletter "Religious Intolerance and Discrimination"

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Table of Contents

 
New book on the legal status of religious minorities in the European
space

08 February 2010
 
 
Editor in chief: Willy FautrA�  
Website: http://www.hrwf.net
http://www.willyfautre.org
Email: [email protected]


On religious liberty in a democratic society
Aspects of law, religion and philosophy in constitutional theory and
reality

Contents.

Editorial.

Papers and Essays.

Ievgeniia Dodina
Protection of the Rights of Religious Organizations in Contemporary
Ukraine.  The Case of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Konstantin Berezhko
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mass Media in the Ukraine in the Communistic
and Post-Soviet Period.

Wolfram Slupina
Problems Associated With Religious Freedom in the Commonwealth of
Independent States - As Shown by the Example of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Zoe Knox
Continuities in Soviet and Post-Soviet Religious Policy (With Particular
Reference to Jehovah's Witnesses).

Ringo Ringvee
Legal Aspects of the State-Church Relations in the Baltic States, and
the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Artur Artemyev
The Religious Situation in Today's Kazakhstan.

Katarzyna Stoklosa
The Franco Dictatorship and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Annegret Dirksen
The Hungarian Experience - Verious Developments of a Constitutional
Guarantee for Religious Freedom.

Hans-Hermann Dirksen
Moldova and Transnistria: Legal Aspects of a Changing Tolerance for
Religious Freedom.

Gerhard Besier
How to Understand Religious Freedom in Germany.

Derek H. Davis
Church qnd State in the Newly Emerging Democratic Orders of the Former
Soviet-Bloc System: The USA as a Case Model.

Reinhard Kohlhofer
The Austrian Law of Religious Communities and its Influence on Eastern
European Models of State-Church-Law.

Max Wornhard
Legal Challenges for Jehovah's Witnesses as a Religious Minority in a
Well Established Democracy Like Switzerland.

Willy Fautre
Religious Freedom Advocacy Opportunities at the European Parliament.

Book Reviews.

Review.

Index.

This 400-page book can be ordered at Lit Verlag either directly from the
homepage http://www.lit-verlag.de or by email [email protected]

Religion - Staat - Gesellschaft, Journal for the Study of Beliefs and
Worldviews.
Edited by Gerhard Besier and Hubert Seiwert in cooperation with James A.
Beckford, Massimo Introvigne, James T. Richardson, Richard Singelenberg,
Bassam Tibi, Hermann Weber 

List of experts

HRWF network of experts covers more than 20 countries, including AUSTRIA
(Dr. Reinhard Kohlhofer, [email protected] - Univ. Prof. Dr.
Christian Bruenner, [email protected]) - BELARUS (Prof.
Viktor Adzinochanka, [email protected]  - BELGIUM (Attorney InA?s Wouters,
[email protected])  - CHINA (Willy FautrA�, [email protected])
FRANCE (Prof. Regis Dericquebourg, [email protected]) - GERMANY
(Prof. Dr Thomas SCHIRRMACHER, [email protected]) - IRAQ: Eden
Naby, Ph D ([email protected]),  KAZAKHSTAN (Dr Roman Podoprigora,
[email protected]) KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (Prof. Joshua Park,
[email protected]) - KENYA (Alex OJACOR [email protected]) -
LEBANON (Dr. Elie Abouaoun, [email protected]) - PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY (Dr. Justus Reid Weiner, [email protected] - Dr. Susanna
Kokkonen, [email protected]) - POLAND (Agnieszka Koscianska /
Warsaw University, [email protected]) - RUSSIA (Prof. Elena
Miroschnikova, [email protected]) - UKRAINE (Prof. Yevgeniya Dodina,
[email protected]), etc. 
 
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