Ritual Slaughter in the Modern Constitutional State: Religious Exceptions to Secular Animal Protection Laws
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Ritual Slaughter in the Modern Constitutional State : Religious Exceptions to Secular Animal Protection Laws. / Afsah, Ebrahim.
2016. Abstract from Harvard Workshop on Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law, Cambridge, Mass., United States.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Ritual Slaughter in the Modern Constitutional State
T2 - Harvard Workshop on Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law
AU - Afsah, Ebrahim
PY - 2016/2/18
Y1 - 2016/2/18
N2 - In this proposed presentation I intend to give a historical overview of the political and constitutional debates in selected European countries – including Germany, France, Great Britain, Holland and Scandinavia – from the nineteenth century to the present day, paying special attention to the shift in emphasis after mass Muslim immigration began in the 1960s. In this sense, the protection of animal welfare as a legitimate concern of the state can be placed in a wider context of secular concerns for vulnerable groups that violently clashes with pre-modern notions of religious or cultural autonomy. Similar in nature if not necessarily in intensity to questions of forced and/or underage marriage, male circumcision and female genital mutilation, the commitment of the secular state to animal welfare cannot summarily be rejected by demands for religious freedom.
AB - In this proposed presentation I intend to give a historical overview of the political and constitutional debates in selected European countries – including Germany, France, Great Britain, Holland and Scandinavia – from the nineteenth century to the present day, paying special attention to the shift in emphasis after mass Muslim immigration began in the 1960s. In this sense, the protection of animal welfare as a legitimate concern of the state can be placed in a wider context of secular concerns for vulnerable groups that violently clashes with pre-modern notions of religious or cultural autonomy. Similar in nature if not necessarily in intensity to questions of forced and/or underage marriage, male circumcision and female genital mutilation, the commitment of the secular state to animal welfare cannot summarily be rejected by demands for religious freedom.
M3 - Conference abstract for conference
Y2 - 18 February 2016 through 19 February 2016
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