Law and religion or the frontiers between public and private

Authors

  • Geraldo Miniuci Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/120

Abstract

What is the meaning of the separation between church and state in a secular society? Does it mean that all religious activities should be restricted to the private sphere or must public manifestation of religion or belief be tolerated? And what would be the limits on restriction or on tolerance? How can these limits be measured and justified? What answers have already been given to these questions by judges? How did they justify them? These are the queries which oriented this article and all the research behind it. The text shows that church-state separation is a generally accepted assumption, but no one really knows what it means.

Key words: Law, religion, lay state.

Author Biography

Geraldo Miniuci, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo

Doutor, Livre-docente em direito internacional e professor da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo. Pesquisador do Núcleo Direito e Democracia do Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento.

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Published

2010-08-06

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2010): July/December

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