This Research Handbook offers an invaluable overview of a range of issues generated by the interaction of law and religion. The twenty-one essays featured are accessible and provide cutting-edge analysis on issues experienced by many jurisdictions (in particular, Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, the US, the UK, Russia and Turkey). Naturally, the book combines assessments of constitutional law, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Subsequently, it advances insightful contributions for international and regional researchers of any experience and background.’
– Craig Allen, Ecclesiastical Law Journal
‘Rex Ahdar has gathered together 21 expert chapters covering a wide range of questions in the field. In his foreword, John Witte, Jr rightly characterizes these essays as ‘a judicious and delicious sampling’ (xviii). Without exception, they are well-written, thought-provoking and authoritative.’
– Julian Rivers, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion
‘Over the course of the last generation, the study of ‘law and religion’ has exploded in breadth, subtlety and significance. This Research Handbook provides its readers with a rich, varied, and sometimes provocative introduction to the field. Expert chapters not only shed new light on familiar topics, they also identify further avenues for fruitful scholarship. One is left with the sense that the most significant work still lies ahead – and also the intellectual tools to face that challenge.’
– Julian Rivers, University of Bristol Law School, UK
‘The authors who have contributed so ably to this excellent volume are to be congratulated on scholarship of the highest quality, which treats a wide and rich range of issues at the centre of the field of law and religion today. Their contribution here will be of enormous value to all those who teach, study, and practise in this rapidly developing and important sphere of life.’
– Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UK
