Religionsfreiheit in Europa

To what extent does a legal system allow for the free exercise of religion? The growing Muslim minorities in Western European societies have put this classic problem back on today's agenda. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg compares how the free exercise of religion is granted in Great Britain, France and Germany, and looks at the specific impact of the European Convention on Human Rights. She depicts congruencies and differences concerning the scope of religious freedom and its legal foundations. She shows that the European Convention on Human Rights particularly affects the legal reasoning within the national legal systems.