{"product_id":"9783031955662","title":"The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003evon Busekist, Astrid\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book deals with three specific encounters between the law and religious commandments: “separationism”, “composition”, and “cooperation” (homeschooling, circumcision, the “Get-laws”), and how legal practitioners handle hard cases on a pragmatic basis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIts distinctiveness might me summarized as follows: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is based on 3 empirical real-life scenarios (see Introduction) involving confrontations between religious commandments and secular law; conflicts between fundamental principles of different normative orders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead of asking how the liberal constitutionalism \u003cem\u003eshould\u003c\/em\u003e normatively handle these cases (as the books and articles of my competitors listed below do), I suggest that the threshold between permissible \/ compatible religious practices is moving and should be treated contextually and pragmatically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy main claim is that there is not one single version of “secularism” (or “laïcité” in the French context), but a multiplicity of possible dialogues between representatives of faith communities and representatives of the legal \/ political community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy scenarios show that decisions are guided by a context-specific balance between democratic values, foremost equality and freedom. Sometimes these cardinal values conflict and judges must rank them. The articulation between religion and politics is not stable, not written in advance, not subsumable under a clear rule; legal principles are not hierarchically ordered \u003cem\u003ea priori\u003c\/em\u003e as all my cases show, even first-order principles (freedom\/equality) must sometimes be weighed against each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI try to theorize each of these pragmatic interactions under the umbrella-concept of “deliberalism” and show that my scenarios display three different types of interaction between orders that range from a strong separation to outright cooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe counterintuitive dimension of my book is to say that even in a very well-documented field, (Church and state-relations), secularism is not a thick concept, not a theory, but a practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-10-02\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031955662\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-95567-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 336\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Albin Michel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309489287308,"sku":"9783031955662","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031955662.jpg?v=1775055421","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031955662","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}