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Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe: Human Rights Law, Theory and Practice

Edited by Peter G. Danchin and Elizabeth A. Cole

Paper, 384 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12475-1
$37.00 / £25.50

September, 2002
Cloth, 384 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12474-4
$105.00 / £72.50

PREFACE, by DR. J. PAUL MARTIN, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University

INTRODUCTION: Religion, Religious Minorities and Human Rights: An Introduction, by PETER DANCHIN, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia

PART ONE. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom: An Overview, by DAVID LITTLE, Harvard Divinity School

2. The Protection of Minority Religions in Eastern Europe, by EILEEN BARKER, London School of Economics

3. Equality and Religious Preferences: Theoretical, International and Religious Perspectives, by TAD STAHNKE, U.S. Commission on International and Religious Freedom

PART TWO. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

4. External Monitoring and the International Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief, by PETER DANCHIN, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs

5. The Evolving Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Religious Minorities, by PETER DANCHIN, LISA FORMAN, Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

6. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Rights of Religion or Belief, by T. JEREMY GUNN, Emory Law School

7. Self-Determination and the Right to Secession of Religious Minorities under International Law, by JOHAN VAN DER VYVER, Emory Law School

PART THREE. CASE STUDIES

A. EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE

8. State Politics and Religious Pluralism in Russia and Ukraine: A Comparative Perspective, by SERHII PLOKHY, University of Alberta

9. Law and Politics toward the Muslims in Bulgaria, by KRASSIMIR KANEV, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee.

10 .Protection of Minority Religions in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis, by BALÁZS SCHANDA

B. WESTERN EUROPE-COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

11. European Parliamentary Enquette Commissions: Justification of a Two-Tiered System of Religious Freedoms, by CAROLYN WAH, Watchtower

12. The Contemporary Form of the Relationship between Religious Minorities and the State in Spain, by ROSA MARIÁ MARTÍNEZ DE CODES, Ministry of Justice, Spain

13. The Protection of Religious Minorities in Belgium: A Western European Perspective, by WILLY FAUTRÉ, Human Rights Without Frontiers

PART FOUR. NON-LEGAL APPROACHES

14. The Development of Polish Civil Society and the Experience of the Greek Catholic Minority in Eastern Poland, by CHRISTOPHER HANN, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

15. The Catholic Church in Post-Communist Europe, by TIMOTHY BYRNES, Colgate University

16. American Church Advocacy of Religious Rights in East Germany: The Legacy of the Past for the Present, by ROBERT GOECKEL, SUNY Geneseo

17. Christian-Jewish Dialogue in Poland: A Difficult Road to Tolerance, by STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI, Warsaw University and Consultant to the American Jewish Co

AFTERWORD

18. Religion and Human Rights: The Capacity to "Swear to one's own Hurt", by DONALD W. SHRIVER, Union Theological Seminary

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About the Author

Peter A. Danchin is a scholar specializing in human rights and international law. Elizabeth A. Cole is program coordinator for the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. Both live in New York City.

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