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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- General Introduction -- 1. General Background of the Country -- I. Basic Structures -- II. General Legal System -- 2. Social Facts about Religion -- I. Religious Affiliation -- Part I. Legal Framework and Sources -- Chapter 1. Basic Law -- 1. Overview -- I. The Preamble -- II. Freedom of Religion, Belief and Opinion -- III. Institutional Guarantees -- IV. Religious Instruction in Public Schools -- V. Equal Treatment -- VI. Oath of Office -- 2. Constitutional Provisions of the State -- Chapter 2. Other Legislation Relating to Religion -- 1. Array of Legislation -- 2. Treaty Law -- 3. Basic Structure of Legislation -- Chapter 3. Typology of the System -- 1. Separation and Cooperation -- 2. Neutrality -- 3. Tolerance -- 4. Pluralism -- 5. Equality -- Part II. Religious Freedom in General -- Chapter 1. Individual Religious Freedom -- 1. Normative Structures -- 2. Functions -- 3. Scope of Individual Guarantee -- I. Nationality -- II. Religious Maturity -- A. Role of Parents and Legal Guardians -- B. Federal Act on the Religious Upbringing of Children -- 4. Limitation to and Derogation from Freedom of Religion or Belief -- Chapter 2. Organizational Religious Freedom -- 1. Basic Principles -- I. Corporative Freedom -- II. Freedom to Form Religious Communities -- III. Fundamental Rights of Legal Persons -- A. Scope of Legal Persons -- B. Foreign Legal Persons -- C. Nature of Rights -- D. Notion of Religious Community -- Chapter 3. Religious Freedom and Equality -- 1. Constitutional Guarantees -- 2. General Non-discrimination -- 3. Institutional Equality -- 4. Equal Treatment of Non-religious and Philosophical Communities -- Part III. Legal Status of Religious Communities -- Chapter 1. Formal Status of Religious Communities.

Contributed seminar papers

1. Does the free exercise of religion have a future in the marketplace of public education in the United States? / Charles J. Russo -- 2. School prayer / Martha M. McCarthy -- 3. Religion and the public school curriculum / Suzanne E. Eckes and Allison Fetter-Harrott -- 4. Distribution of religious materials in public schools / Ralph D. Mawdsley -- 5. Religious displays and holiday observances in public schools / Kevin P. Brady -- 6. Wearing religious garb in public schools / Allan G. Osborne, Jr. -- 7. Clash of values : religious autonomy and state efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination / William E. Theo -- 8. The constitution religious education and the future of religious freedom in Australian schools / Paul Babie and Ben Mylius -- 9. From "Common Christianity" to "Equal concern and respect" : working out a new understanding of religion's place in Canada's schools / Gregory M. Dickinson and Nora M Findlay -- 10. Adapting to religious diversity : legal protection of religious preference in state-funded schools in England / Neville Harris and Javier Garcia Oliva -- 11. The legal status of religion in publicly-funded schools in Ireland / Dympna Glendenning -- 12. Freedom of religion and religious practices in school : the judicial approach in Malaysia / Fatt Hee Tie -- 13. Freedom of conscience and the right to education in Russia : a secular country of cultural and religious diversity / Maria Smirnova -- 14. Education, religion, and the law in South Africa / Marius Smitt -- 15. Analysis and recommendations / Charles J. Russo.