Law and Religion

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course provides knowledge on the protection of religious freedom and the regulation of cults in our and other legal systems. With a focus on the impact of confessional regulations in the prism of state law and the interaction of identities in intercultural society. At the end of the course, the student acquires mastery of the main systems of relations between State and Churches in the world and knowledge of elements of the domestic law of the numerically most representative religious denominations and their interaction with the social context. Particular attention is consequently given to some significant case studies from an international perspective. At the end of the course, the student is able to highlight the continuous reshaping, in the local-global dynamic, of the relationship between the religious factor and legal systems, between religious orders and state orders.