Case Law on the Freedom of Religion during the COVID-19 Crisis in Belgium
The combat against the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium led to the adoption of several measures that impacted the freedom of religion or belief. The particular focus of this article is the collective exercise of religion in places of worship and its protection by judicial actors during the first two yea...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue on Governments’ Legal Responses and Judicial Reactions during a Global Pandemic: Litigating Religious Freedom in the Time of COVID-19 |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, Pages: 663-682 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious freedom
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
/ Belgium
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBD Benelux countries SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | The combat against the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium led to the adoption of several measures that impacted the freedom of religion or belief. The particular focus of this article is the collective exercise of religion in places of worship and its protection by judicial actors during the first two years of the COVID-19 crisis. This choice was prompted by the fact that the government measures taken in this context had significant consequences for this form of religious manifestation. Where necessary for a proper understanding of the policy choices made by the government, attention will be paid to the legal nature of the measures that restricted the freedom of religion or belief, but this aspect is not at the center of this article. We will consider only briefly the individual aspects of religion that were impacted, such as personal prayer in a place of worship or visits to a building of worship, and the collective worship in other venues. The measures applicable to other domains in society will also only be discussed to the extent that they were part of the discussed judgments ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac073 |