European governments want Muslim communities to organize coherent structures to better interact with the state. However, the state should not go so far as to define the features that this structure should possess “on the inside.” How can European states properly comprehend the institutionalization of Islam and channel this process, without too much trauma, towards a system of relations between states and religions that is characteristic of the European tradition? Through a correct distinction between three fundamental principles underlying the relations between states and religions: freedom; cooperation; and autonomy.

The Creation of Muslim Representative institutions in the “Secular” European States / S. Ferrari. - In: THE REVIEW OF FAITH & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. - ISSN 1557-0274. - 8:2(2010), pp. 21-27. [10.1080/15570274.2010.487988]

The Creation of Muslim Representative institutions in the “Secular” European States

S. Ferrari
2010

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European governments want Muslim communities to organize coherent structures to better interact with the state. However, the state should not go so far as to define the features that this structure should possess “on the inside.” How can European states properly comprehend the institutionalization of Islam and channel this process, without too much trauma, towards a system of relations between states and religions that is characteristic of the European tradition? Through a correct distinction between three fundamental principles underlying the relations between states and religions: freedom; cooperation; and autonomy.
Islam; religious freedom; pluralism; law; non‐governmental organizations; Western Europe
Settore IUS/11 - Diritto Canonico e Diritto Ecclesiastico
2010
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