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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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| 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
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| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048318000068 |