Contents: 1. Creating and conserving constitutional space / Paul T. Babie, Neville G. Rochow QC and Brett G. Scharffs
Part I: The concept of constitutional space and freedom of religion or belief
2. Religious freedom as an element of the human rights framework / Carolyn Evans and Cate Read
3. The problem and the promise of religious liberty / Joel Harrison
4. 'A la carte' spirituality and the future of freedom of religion / Jeremy Patrick
5. Towards a constitutional definition of religion: challenges and prospects / Alex Deagon
6. Freedom of religion without a bill of rights: Australia's peculiar approach to tackling freedom of religion and other human rights issues / Renae Barker
7. The effect of s 116 of the Australian constitution - on the implied freedom of political communication / Joshua Forrester
8. Conceptualising reasonable accommodation / Brett G. Scharffs vi Freedom of religion or belief
9. Protection of religious freedom under Australia's amended marriage law: constitutional and other issues / Neil Foster
10. Identifying faith-based entities for the purposes of antidiscrimination law / Mark Fowler
Part II: Comparative perspectives 11. Reconciling democracy and human rights: implementing the expressive freedoms of the international covenant on civil and political rights in australian law / Paul M. Taylor
12. It works better if it is not too secularised: the Croatian constitutional model for regulating state-church relations / Vanja-Ivan Savić
13. Locating freedom of religion within the qualified rights of the European convention on human rights and in the jurisprudence of Strasbourg / Mark Hill QC
14. The Iraqi constitutional failure to protect the right to freedom of religion or belief / Ewelina U. Ochab
15. An assessment of the constitutional space for secularity and equality in India / Arvind P. Bhanu
16. The development trend concerning administration of religion and religious affairs in China / Ping Xiong
17. Apostasy and freedom of religion in Malaysia / Joshua Neoh
Index.