The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom by John Witte Jr, ... - 9780268210625

The Legal Foundations of Religious FreedomHuman Rights in the United States and Europe\nAuthor(s): John Witte Jr, Andrea Pin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268210625, 978-0268210625\nSynopsis\nThe Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom documents the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom in the West, from antiquity to the present.\n\nIn The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom, authors John Witte Jr. and Andrea Pin explore the Christian and secular origins of rights in the Western legal tradition and the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern law, religion, and culture. They analyze historical documents and recent cases from the United States Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Court of Justice of the European Union to articulate the historical, theoretical, and legal tension of human rights and rel.