Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-3751-2 (ISBN)
In the context of increasing cultural and religion or belief diversity, it is vitally important for the future to understand the nature and extent of discrimination and unfair treatment on the grounds of religion or belief, and to assess the adequacy of policies, practices and laws designed to tackle this. This includes the overlap of religion or belief identities with other aspects of people’s identity including characteristics such as age, disability, race, sex and sexual orientation which can also be legally protected.
This volume is a benchmark publication on religion, discrimination and equality. It includes data and insights derived from the fieldwork, focus groups and questionnaire survey of a recent national research project in Britain. Its analysis presents a unique insight into continuity and change in people’s reported experience over a decade of equalities legislation and political and social change of unfair treatment on the basis of religion or belief. Grounded in empirical and contextualized data, its findings are placed in the context of European and international human rights law.
Its findings will be of special interest to both scholars and practitioners working in the specific fields of education, employment, the media, criminal justice and immigration, housing, health care, social services, and funding, as well as in the broader fields of religion or belief, the law and public policy.
Paul Weller is Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK. Kingsley Purdam is Research Fellow in the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester, UK. Nazila Ghanea is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law in the Department for Continuing Education and a member of the Law Faculty, University of Oxford, UK. She also serves as a member of the OSCE Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Centre for Society, Religion and Belief at the University of Derby, UK.
Acknowledgments/ 1. The book, the research and key concepts/ 2. Historical perspectives on the law, rights, and religion or belief discrimination/ 3. Contemporary context of religion and belief, state and society/ 4. The law: a decade of continuity and change/ 5. Religion or belief discrimination: evidence and methods/ 6. Experience of unfair treatment in education, employment and media/ 7. Experience of unfair treatment in criminal justice and immigration; housing; health care; social services, planning and other services; and funding/ 8. Experience of unfair treatment from, between and within ‘religious groups’ and from political, community and other pressure groups/ 9. An analytical spectrum for understanding the evidence/ 10. Evidence-based signposts for future policy, law and practice/ Appendix: Selected list of relevant legal cases in England and Wales/ Bibliography/ Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.5.2015 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4742-3751-7 / 1474237517 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-3751-2 / 9781474237512 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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