Books by W. Cole Durham

This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. It will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights.

This book builds on its predecessor, Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues, by continuing to identify the sometimes confusing and often contentious new challenges that arise as Islam settles deeper into Europe but follows those issues out of the courtroom and into daily life and institutions.

What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of contemporary States? What role is religion expected to perform in the fields that are the object of constitutional regulation? Is separation of religion and politics a necessary precondition for democracy and the rule of law.