Religious Tolerance and Freedom in Continental Europe

• Iván C. Ibán ^[1]
  1. [1] Madrid Complutense University
• Localización: Ratio juris: An international journal of jurisprudence and philosophy of law, ISSN 0952-1917, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 1997, págs. 90-107
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author analyses the problems faced by Continental Europe's legal systems as a result of the appearance of the so-called new religious movements. He is of the opinion that the expected change towards the achievement of full legal neutrality regarding the religious phenomena cannot be based on the sole assumption that each and every religion deserves protection. In fact, he considers that any system of equiality should be aimed at protecting the legitimate expression of the individual's free will; that is to say, neither a particular religion nor all of them, but the person considered as a citizen, regardless of wether he believes or not.