Le origini e il futuro della libertà religiosa in Europa e negli Stati Uniti

 Le origini e il futuro della libertà religiosa in Europa e negli Stati Uniti  (Milan/Bologna: Il Mulino, 2024) (with Andrea Pin)

English translation forthcoming: Religious Freedom and Fundamental Rights in Europe and the United States: Past, Present, and Future
Description

This book documents and defends the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom from antiquity until today. It explores the Christian roots and routes of rights developments in the Western legal tradition on both sides of the Atlantic. It traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law. Several chapters trace the plight of religious freedom in American and European high courts and note with alarm the growing attacks on new religious minorities and traditional religious accommodations in pan-European Courts. And the book answers both modern Christian critics who see human rights as a betrayal of Christianity and modern secular critics who see Christianity as a betrayer of human rights.
Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Religious Freedom: The Cornerstone
2. The Story We Tell Here 
 
Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition
1. Introduction
2. The Development of Human Rights
3. Human Rights in Early Modern Europe
4. The Development of Religious Freedom
5. Religious Freedom in the International Human Rights Framework
6. Conclusions
 
Religious Freedom in the Contemporary West
1. Introduction
2. Religious Freedom in the Supreme Court of the United States
3. Human Rights in Europe
4. Religious Freedom in the European Court of Human Rights
5. Religious Freedom in the Court of Justice of the European Union
6. Comparing Religious Freedom in the American and European Courts
7. The Myth of Religious Neutrality in the West
8. Islam in the West
9. Conclusions
 
The Future of Human Rights and Religious Freedom
1. Introduction
2. Critics of Human Rights: Doubting the Skeptics
3. Critics of religious freedom
4. Conflict, Disagreement and Reconciliation
5. Human Dignity as the Foundation of Human Rights and Religious Freedom
6. Conclusions ​​