Dogma Deluxe: Human Rights on Their Knees before the Law of Altar

DOGMA DELUXE - Human Rights on Their KneesHow far does ecclesiastical self-determination extend when it conflicts with human rights?Drawing on current legal cases, DOGMA DELUXE offers a precise analysis of the fault lines between religious freedom, equal treatment, church labor law, constitutional law, and European case law. The book asks when religious identity constitutes a legitimate space of protection-and when it becomes, as a form of corporate administrative law, a legal defense strategy against individual claims to equality.The volume combines theology, law, social ethics, and social analysis into a combative yet didactically accessible commentary: No altar may stand higher than the law when dignity, participation, and non-discrimination are at stake. At the same time, it demonstrates how artificial intelligence, as a medium for reflection, can reveal patterns of argumentation, power structures, and dogmas, and challenge the convenient notion that religious privileges stand above the principle of equality. Drawing on influential, high-profile legal cases and other conflicts in church labor law, it becomes clear how law, theology, and social power grapple with one another when human dignity clashes with institutional self-assertion.DOGMA DELUXE is a pointed, accessible, and highly topical book on discrimination and responsibility for anyone who wants to know whether human rights in a secular state truly apply to everyone-and who wants to answer the question of whether the rule of law stops at the altar-or finally moves forward.

Pagina's: 312, Editie: Eerste editie, Paperback, BoD - Books on Demand