Religion, Human Rights, Equality and the Public Sphere

This article distinguishes three different conceptions of the relationship between religion and the public sphere. The reconciliation of these different aspects of freedom of religion can be seen to give rise to considerable difficulties in practice, and the legal and political systems of several Western European countries are struggling to cope. Four recurring issues that arise in this context are identified and considered: what is a 'religion' and what are 'religious' beliefs and practices for the purposes of the protection of 'freedom of religion', together with the closely related issue of who decides these questions; what justification there is for a provision guaranteeing freedom of religion at all; which manifestations of religious association are so unacceptable as to take the association outside the protection of freedom of religion altogether; and what weight should be given to freedom of religion when this freedom stands opposed to other values. It is argued that the scope and meaning of human rights in this context is anything but settled and that this gives an opportunity to those who support a role for religion in public life to intervene.

Regime constitucional do direito privado das organizações religiosas

In Brazil, constitutional clauses regarding religious freedom have concrete applications in Private Law. Church-State Law, or "Ecclesiastical Law of the State," studies the legal principles which may be applicable to religious activity, exercised individually and collectively. The study of Church-State Law in Brazil lacks a thorough introduction to the constitutional and civil aspects of religious organizations: such an introduction is the main end of this work. Following a brief introduction, the main aspects of religious freedom and the principle of private autonomy as it concerns religious organizations are explained. A careful introductory analysis of Church-State Law in Brazil is thus developed: (1) the historical aspects, including a detailed account of the relations between Catholicism, the established religion up to 1889, and the government; (2) the current constitutional principles, as presented in the text of the federal Constitution of 1988, regarding the rights and claims of religious organizations; (3) how the same constitutional principles are to be used in the interpretation of Private Law (especially the Civil Code of 2002), fostering and preserving the uniqueness of religious organizations in the Brazilian legal system. A brief complementary chapter presents some aspects of the legal position of religious institutions in three other nations whose constitutional documents have influenced the current Brazilian federal Constitution (France, Spain, and the United States)

Hibridismo cultural: o imaginário europeu na construção da sexualidade feminina do primeiro século de colonização brasileira

The aim of this study is to investigate and analyze the conceptions of sexuality and female sexual behavior and conduct, formed from the merger of information and securities purchased under the eyes, rules and guidelines established relations with the Holy Office during his visit to Inquisitorial Brazil in the late sixteenth century. It is a survey of historical methodology in which we used as the exploratory research and literature. In the sixteenth century the Church increases the pressure to change the sexual mores that were free in the Middle Ages, a fact which influences the rules and regulations that are adopted by the Holy Office regarding the person's sex life. The first structure was based on Brazilian sexual alliance between Indians and settlers, which led to sugar, by the Portuguese, the customs of the land, which included sexual practices free since the Indians were out of Christian influence. Supported by the absence of white women, the settlers took them wives of the earth, usually more than one, creating conflict with the Jesuits who condemned Indian polygamy. In this context, in 1591, landed on Brazilian soil Heitor Furtado de Mendonca, and with it, the First Visitation of the Holy Office to investigate, arguing, exploring feelings and behaviors, to discover the true facts, finally, to demonstrate the errors Faith and punish them with the rigor of ecclesiastical law. His passing opens us to visualize traces of sexuality in the current "Tropic" a racist, misogynist world where black women and degraded land could be subject to the wishes of the white man, with whom he could mate at will. Alone and forgotten, women have not found the colony margin to denounce or to speak and were stigmatized by the look of travelers and writers have been through here.

T͡Sirkuli͡arnye ukazy Svi͡ati͡eĭshago Pravitelʹstvui͡ushchago Sinoda : 1867-1900 /

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Les lois religieuses des empereurs romains de Constantin à Théodose II (312-438).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Decisiones Sacrae Rotae romanae coram R. P. D. Theodulpho Mertel ejusdem Sacrae Rotae auditore nunc ab internis status negociis : quas additis nondum editis, argumentis praepositis atque summariis, nec non omnium conslusionum indice generali in finem adjecto, /

Covers period Jan. 15, 1849-March 7, 1853.

System des katholischen Kirchenrechts mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Deutschland. 1. Bd. [-6. Bd., Abth. I]

No more published.

Thesavrvs ivris ecclesiastici potissimvm germanivi sive dissertationes selectae in ivs ecclesiasticvm qvas ivxta seriem institvtionvm eivsdem ivris a se editarvm in ordinem digessit, illvstravit animadversionibvs novis, adavxit lvcvbrationibvs propriis /

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Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae et historiarum capita elucidanda ex originalibus aliisque authenticis documentis congesta,

Bound in full contemporary mottled leather with title in gilt on orange calf label mounted on spine.

Die protestantische Kirchenordnung der Slovenen im XVI. Jahrhundert; eine literarisch-kulturhistorisch-philologische Untersuchung / von Fr. Kidrič.

Includes index.

Dissertações chronologicas e criticas sobre a historia e jurisprudencia ecclesiastica e civil de Portugal/

Tomos IV-V: 2. ed., 1867, 1896.

Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI. Jahrhunderts /

Publication suspended 1913-1955.

Die ausgaben des preussischen staats für die evangelische landeskirche der älteren provinzen. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der evangelischen kirchenverfassung in Preussen.

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