Legal Aspects of Religious Freedom (YNNSm401)

Course topics: 1. Law, religion and society, overlapping aspects of religious and secular laws. 2. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion. From etymological to essential approach to the issue. 3. Freedom of conscience and religious thought and its protection in the international and European environment. 4. Freedom of conscience and religion in the Slovak Republic. 5. Contractual and non-contractual relations between states and churches and religious societies. 6. Mental reservation and possibilities of its application. 7. Economic aspects of external manifestations of freedom of religion, interactions of states and religious entities and their models. 8. Overview of the non-Euro-Atlantic systems of relations between the state and religion (re-sacralization and secularization of traditional societies, Islamization, Hinduization, etc.) and systems of protection of human rights (law and religion in the region - joint lecture with a foreign expert). 9. Overview of the system of relations between the state and religion (law and religion in a selected European state - joint lecture with a foreign expert). 10. Secular principles, laïcité, laiklik and religion in public space. 11. The issue of abuse of weaker party in the religious environment and its prophylaxis. 12. Ethical dilemmas in the area of freedom of conscience and religion and the possibilities of their solution.

Supervisors and educators:
prof. PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Gábriš, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Hlavný garant
Jarmila Hercegová - Zodpovedný za elearning
Ing. Jana Koprlová, PhD. - Kogarant, Schvaľujúci zápis
Katarína Cviková - Zodpovedný za elearning
ThLic. Mgr. Michaela Moravčíková, Th. D. - Zabezpečuje, Prednášajúci, Cvičiaci, Skúšajúci, Kogarant

Code: YNNSm401

Period: ZS

Credits: 3