Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Introduction Aslı U. Bali and Hanna Lerner; Part I. Constitution Writing and Religion under Limited Sovereignty: 2. The curious case of religion in the Norwegian Constitution John Madeley; 3. Religion and the Japanese Constitution Helen Hardacre; 4. Constitution making and religion in West Germany in the shadow of state failure Tine Stein; Part II. Post-Colonial French-Influenced Constitution Writing and Religion: 5. Secularism in a sectarian society: the divisive drafting of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution Mark Farha; 6. The constitution of a 'laic' African and Muslim country: Senegal Soulaymane Bachir Diagne; 7. Constitution writing and religious divisions in Turkey Ergun Ozbudun; Part III. Post-Colonial South Asian Constitution Drafting and Religion: 8. Constitutionalism, Islamic law, and religious freedom in post-independent Indonesia Mirjam Kunkler; 9. Cross-cutting rifts in constitutions and minority rights: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka Shylashri Shankar; 10. Islamic law in an Islamic republic: what role for parliament? Matthew Nelson; Part IV. Constitution Writing and Religion in the Contemporary Middle East: 11. Constitutional impasse, democracy and religion in Israel Hanna Lerner; 12. Islam and constitutionalism in the Arab world: the puzzling course of Islamic inflation Nathan Brown; 13. The politics of sacred paralysis: Islam in recent Moroccan and North African constitutions David Mednicoff; 14. Dancing by the cliff: constitution writing in post-revolutionary Tunisia, 2011?2014 Nadia Marzouki; Part V. Lessons from the Cases: 15. Designing constitutions in religiously divided societies Aslı U. Bali and Hanna Lerner.