Religion and Education in Romania: Social Mobilization and the "Shadow" of the European Court of Human Rights

In this article, we discuss the relation between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and its jurisprudence and social mobilizations around the place of religion in the society. We focus on the struggles to define the intersection of religion and public education in Romania after the fall of c...

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Authors: Popa, Mihai 1964- (Author) ; Andreescu, Liviu (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Politics and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-102
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Romania / Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte / Religion / Education / Religious education
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
KBK Europe (East)
XA Law
ZC Politics in general
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Summary:In this article, we discuss the relation between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and its jurisprudence and social mobilizations around the place of religion in the society. We focus on the struggles to define the intersection of religion and public education in Romania after the fall of communism. We show that secularist and counter-secularist civil society activists contending for the place of religion in public education in this country have made strategic use of the ECtHR and its case law, both in legal battles and in debates within the national public sphere. We argue that, since references to the ECtHR and its jurisprudence can be used in discursive battles as a form of symbolic "capital", the strategies of mobilizing actors are at times more important than the strict doctrinal content of the ECtHR's judgments for understanding if and how the ECtHR's "shadow" is cast over religion-related mobilizations.
ISSN:1755-0491
Contains:Enthalten in: Politics and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1755048318000068