Religious Offence and Human Rights: The Implications of Defamation of Religions
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2014), lxii, 419 pp.
Contains acronyms pp. xii-xviii, table of cases pp. xix-xxviii, table of legislation pp. xxix-xxxvi, table of international and regional materials pp. xxxvii-lxii, bibliogr. pp. 383-408, index
Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
ISBN 978-1-107-03957-5 (hbk); 978-1-107-61220-4 (pbk)
Other editions: revised and shortened ed. of doctoral thesis at Zürich University, 2013: Law, religious offence and human rights : defamation of religions and the rationales of speech regulation
Signature commbox: 10-Religion-E 2014
Introduction, 1
1 The Danish cartoons revisited, 31
2 Legal responses to religious insult, 51
3 The current legal framework, 91
4 Invention of new alternatives? The concept of defamation of religions before and after the cartoons, 160
5 Defining defamation, 199
6 First principles: norms and norm-rationales, 259
7 Norm-rationales for the regulation of speech, 272
8 The religious rationale, 320
9 Religion, its defamation and international law, 352
1 The Danish cartoons revisited, 31
2 Legal responses to religious insult, 51
3 The current legal framework, 91
4 Invention of new alternatives? The concept of defamation of religions before and after the cartoons, 160
5 Defining defamation, 199
6 First principles: norms and norm-rationales, 259
7 Norm-rationales for the regulation of speech, 272
8 The religious rationale, 320
9 Religion, its defamation and international law, 352
