- Religious Freedom and Discrimination
- Religion and Society Interactions
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Theology and Canon Law Studies
- Islamic Studies and History
- Legal and Labor Studies
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Human Rights and Immigration
- Historical and Linguistic Studies
- Human Rights and Development
- Religion, Theology, and Education
- Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Gender and Women's Rights
- Italian Social Issues and Migration
- Classical Studies and Legal History
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Historical and Environmental Studies
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
2023
LUM Jean Monnet University
2011-2022
Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma
2022
University of Bari Aldo Moro
2010-2019
The University of Sydney
2019
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
2015
In France, freedom of expression is perceived as a sort liberté matricielle, matrix other fundamental freedoms. As such, it reflected in many constitutional provisions, including those referring to religion. addition, the practical exercise remains strictly linked with principle laïcité, which part institutional, legal and intellectual history French Republic has even become basis its founding "values." All this, however, also implies an accentuation individual expression, normally takes...
The author analyzes the relationship between religion and constitutionalism. time seems propitious for an examination of relationships in West Church/es, State, general principles constitutionalism," a definition which cannot be separated from analysis its historical secular roots.It is not arbitrary to explain constitutionalism as product long process secularization, however, idea secularism (laicïté, French) has never been clearly defined. On contrary, it often source tension, example...
his article is a lecture part of the Political Theory Ph.D. course (Director: Full Professor Sebastiano Maffettone), held at LUISS “Guido Carli” University (Rome) on 13 March 2009. It due to be published in Quaderni del dottorato, Torino, Giappichelli, SOMMARIO: 1. Introduction – 2. Part I: Theological and Historical Roots Western Constitutionalism 2.1. King-Servant God vs. Tyrant-Servant Devil 2.2. Hobbes la religion de l’État 2.3. John Locke’s Principle Tolerance. The Modern 2.4. Roger...
The Regulation of the Religious Phenomenon in Difficult Path European Legal Space ABSTRACT: problem faced by societies today is not structurally different from that which has underpinned long process secularisation: how to reconcile unity with diversity? How offer equal citizenship allowing believers origins and denominations, as well non-believers (atheists, agnostics or rationalists), coexist? difficulty these questions accentuated when dealing religious freedom referring Union Convention...
Abstract Although diverging influences have always characterized the relation between religion and democracy, in Italy, tensions arising from these divergences are especially exacerbated by country’s current religious diversity plurality, they magnified when combined with chronic emergencies such as immigration international terrorism. These critical factors complicate application of freedom supreme principle secularism ( principio supremo di laicità ), which essential parts Italian legal...
This article is due to be published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Imams Western Europe. Authority, Training, and Institutional Challenges , held Rome at LUISS “Guido Carli” John Cabot University, November 5-7, 2014. SUMMARY: 1. Introduction – 2. The Relationship State-Confessions Religious Ministers – 2.1. “Common” Legislation of intese and the 1929 Act – 2.2. State’s Law 3. Imam in Italy. Is that a Minister? – 3.1. Connection State-Islamic Organizations 3.2. Islamic...
Far from taking place in a vacuum, Morocco the 2011 constitutional revision was assessed both an internal political perspective and within broader context of what has come to be called ‘Arab Spring’. In this manner, Moroccan Constitution indeed marked unprecedented change, declaring State’s adherence protection human rights, which are strictly related Western history ‘secular constitutionalism’. Yet, order better understand transition, one consider religious characteristic monarchy which, on...
Food is not only a collection of products that can be used for statistical or nutritional studies. It also system symbols and images, protocol usages, situations behaviours. And this may involve belief in spiritual, invisible transcendent entities. In brief, it infer religion. Besides, food consumption cannot seen as an isolated innocent act. On the contrary, part chains interdependencies, which bind people together across world, calling change eating To become more sustainable, act...
The article, peer reviewed, is due to be published in Twenty Years after Dayton. Constitutional Transition of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Proceedings the Conference) , LUISS University Press, Rome, 2016 SUMMARY : 1. Introduction - 2. Politicization Religion Nationalization Confessions 3. Place Religious Confession 4. Constituent (Chosen) People Power-Sharing Mechanism 5. Education System 6. Legal Status Churches State-Religions Relationship 7. Conclusion. ABSTRACT: It would wrong understand...
In the last decade several Western countries have been updating law concerning relationships between State and Churches. This clearly testifies that many legal instruments, created for carrying out secularism in societies dominated by a single culture tradition, are not any longer adequate to meet needs of today's multicultural communities. fact, those instruments were tailored on requirements traditional creeds; therefore, they able accommodate demands coming from diverse religious...
SUMMARY: 1. Introduction - 2. The Vertical and Horizontal Influences 3. Atheism, laicite Church 4. Islam 5. Today’s Popular Sources of Atheism 6. Conclusion. ABSTRACT: With this article, the Author outlines legal issues involving atheism in France, analysing them light principle laicite. France has a long history criticism religion. Many philosophes Enlightenment, for example, have provided classical writings field. In sense, they were able to aliment two major streams thought magmatic...
SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Esperienze normative 3. Nello spazio giuridico europeo e internazionale 4. Valida inefficace 5. Una ragionevole normativa penale 6. Rigidità flessibilità 7. Fondati timori 8. Us and Them 9. Le culture tra eguaglianza differenze – 10. Conclusioni.
 Cultural Defenses between Monoculturalism Multiculturalism
 ABSTRACT: In an increasingly globalized world, individuals groups are seeking to have their own respected, maintaining cultural diversity in the...