Faith in Courts. Human Rights Advocacy and the Transnational Regulation of Religion.

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The book (under contract with Hart Publishing) analyzes the legal mobilization by transnational advocacy groups for the right to freedom of religion at the European Court of Human Rights. While such actors have been recognized as essential for the diffusion of individual rights in national settings, we know little about their transnational strategies. Faith in Courts offers a socio-legal analysis of contention over religious freedom taking place at the European Court of Human Rights since the 1990s by examining major conflicts over religious freedom involving Jehovah’s Witnesses, Evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, and Sikhs. It shows how the relations between transnationally connected experts and local grassroots movements as well as struggle over power among actors within the human rights field translate into legal activism and, hence, into the negotiation of the right to freedom of religion.