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100 1 _aLanger, Lorenz.
245 1 0 _aReligious Offence and Human Rights :
_bThe Implications of Defamation of Religions.
300 _a1 online resource (492 pages)
490 1 _aCambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law ;
_vv.106.
505 0 _aCover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Table of cases -- Table of legislation -- Table of international and regional materials -- Introduction -- I 'No explanation will suffice - it is an insult' -- II How does - or should - the law respond to offence? -- A Offence and the law -- B Legal relevance of insult to religions? -- C Overview -- III Bacon's idols: a note on observational standpoints -- IV Terminology -- Part I -- 1 The Danish cartoons revisited -- I A brief account of events -- II Reactions to the controversy -- 2 Legal responses to religious insult -- I Before and after the cartoons: the ubiquity of religious offence -- II The Satanic Verses -- III Proceedings after the cartoons -- A In national courts -- 1 Denmark -- 2 France -- 3 Canada -- 4 Other jurisdictions -- 5 Muslim countries -- B International fora -- 1 European Court of Human Rights -- 2 UN Human Rights Committee -- 3 UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- 3 The current legal framework -- I International instruments -- A. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 1 Freedom of expression (Art. 19) -- 2 Freedom of religion (Art. 18) -- 3 Non-discrimination and equality (Arts. 2 and 7) -- B The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 1 Freedom of expression and hate speech (Arts. 19 and 20) -- i Potential protection for the offender: Art. 19 ICCPR -- ii The perspective of the offended: Art. 20 -- 2 Freedom of religion (Art. 18 ICCPR) -- C The 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief -- D International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination -- E Conclusion -- II Regional instruments -- A Overview -- B European Convention on Human Rights.
505 8 _a1 Causing (religious) offence: Arts. 10 and 17 ECHR -- 2 Combating religious offence: Arts. 9 and 14 ECHR -- 4 Invention of new alternatives? The concept of defamation of religions before and after the cartoons -- I Prologue: defamation of religions before the cartoons -- II Enter defamation: the first resolution at the Commission -- III The cartoons and their aftermath: the apogee of religious defamation -- IV Exit defamation? -- 5 Defining defamation -- I Defamation as a legal concept -- II Conceptual analysis: elements of religious defamation -- A Insult to religions -- B Freedom of religion -- C The relationship with freedom of expression -- D Incitement to religious hatred -- E Discrimination, racism and Islamophobia -- F The adoption of new norms -- III Institutional responses -- IV Conceptual criticism -- V Prospects -- Part II -- 6 First principles: norms and norm-rationales -- 7 Norm-rationales for the regulation of speech -- I Speech and the law -- II Justifications for free speech -- A Intrinsic justifications for free speech -- B Instrumental justifications for free speech -- 1 The discovery of truth and the marketplace of ideas -- 2 Free speech and the organisation of public life -- III Rationales for speech restriction -- A Preventing 'harm' to individuals: reputation, honour and offence -- B Speech and societal harm -- IV Human rights - the official rationale? -- 8 The religious rationale -- I Religion, offence and the law -- II The inside perspective: religious norms on offence -- III Legal enforcement of religious speech norms -- 9 Religion, its defamation and international law -- I The persisting relevance of religious law -- II Human rights and international law: the issue of interpretation and the balancing fallacy -- III Conclusion -- Annex -- I Voting record - Commission on Human Rights and -- II Voting record - General Assembly.
505 8 _aBibliography -- Index.
520 _aShould offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?.
538 _aAvailable electronically via the Internet.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aFreedom of expression.
650 0 _aHate speech.
650 0 _aInternational law and human rights.
650 0 _aOffenses against religion.
653 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aLanger, Lorenz
_tReligious Offence and Human Rights : The Implications of Defamation of Religions
_dCambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2014
_z9781107039575.
830 0 _aCambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law.
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vu/detail.action?docID=1682526
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