RT Article
T1 State Neutrality and Legal Status of Religious Groups in the European Court of Human Rights Case-law
JF Religion and human rights
VO 11
IS 3
SP 189
OP 223
A1 Arlettaz, Fernando
LA English
PB Brill, Nijhoff
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1561958565
AB From the premise of religious freedom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case-law has established a State duty of neutrality concerning religious matters. However, the concept of neutrality is not univocal, and the ECtHR uses various different forms of it. States have a duty to allow religious groups access to legal personality, but they are not obliged to grant every religious group the same kind of legal personality. A double or multi-level system of recognition is legitimate under the European Convention on Human Rights (echr) if some conditions are fulfilled. The ECtHR has also affirmed that the most radical kind of double or multi-level system, that of an established church, is not contrary to the Convention. In a recent case, however, the ECtHR seems to have adopted a stricter approach to the legitimacy of privileges granted to some church/churches above other ones.
K1 RELIGIOUS groups : legal status : legal personality : European Convention on Human Rights (echr) : European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) : religious freedom : freedom of association : state religion
DO 10.1163/18710328-12341305