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The Right to Wear Religious Symbols

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction: Philosophy of Religion Goes to Court

    1. Introduction: Philosophy of Religion Goes to Court

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 1-13
  3. Trends in Article 9(1)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 14-14
    2. The Manifestation Test

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 15-35
    3. The Myth of the Necessity Test

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 36-48
    4. The Practical Turn

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 49-60
  4. Understanding the Practical Turn

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
    2. The UK Government and Generally Recognized Practices

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 62-72
    3. The Participative Symbol

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 73-90
    4. High-Level and Low-Level Beliefs

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 91-105
    5. Conclusion: Why Eweida Won

      • Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler
      Pages 106-118
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 119-128

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK

    Daniel J. Hill, Daniel Whistler

About the authors

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), and co-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).

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