Conscientious objection claims have a long and varied history, spanning military service, abortion, euthanasia, contraception, vaccination, and more. Religious belief is frequently called into play as the motivation behind the objection. This essay focuses on the religiously grounded objections made by public officials tasked with registering same-sex marriages (or unions)…
Conscientious objection claims have a long and varied history, spanning military service, abortion, euthanasia, contraception, vaccination, and more. Religious belief is frequently called into play as the motivation behind the objection. This essay focuses on the religiously grounded objections made by public officials tasked with registering same-sex marriages (or unions)…
The paper draws inspiration from an insight by Simone Weil, based on a reflection on the crusade against the Cathars between the 11th and 13th centuries. According to the philosopher, this historical event constitutes a little-studied but decisive watershed between opposing conceptions of man, society, and law, which resolve themselves…
The right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP) is undergoing increasing erosion on a global scale, not so much through explicit repeals as through regulatory restrictions and legal interpretations that limit effective access. This trend reflects growing political and cultural control over women’s bodies and a crisis of the rule…
The experience of faith lived online represents an alternative to traditional paths of religious freedom. In some cases, digital technology becomes an intermediary between the faithful and the transcendent; in others, the web embodies the “divine”, that is, the interlocutor or an interface for dialogue where the religious experience of…
This paper focuses on the possibility of imagining jurisdictional remedies to state refusal to conclude into agreements (intese) with individual religious denominations. To this end, the configurability of ‘intese’ as an instrument for the implementation/protection of religious freedom is examined. Relying on this analysis, the essay assesses the conditions for…
The essay critically examines Italian colonial ecclesiastical law, starting from a recent volume by Andrea Miccichè, and highlights its pragmatic, differential, and hierarchical nature—designed to manage religious pluralism in colonial territories. This legal system did not aim to universalize principles, but rather to organize religious differences according to logics of…
The essay addresses the complex relationship between freedom of conscience and juridical oaths in a European legal space that is increasingly diversified in the religious and cultural fields. It focuses, in particular, on two distinct problems: the religiosity of the oath form and the structure of the oath, examining them both in relation…
Is there a link between the Sabbath, inaction, and translation? And, again, between the Sabbath and the rhythm of relations with Otherness? This short essay seeks to probe, from a semi-anthropological perspective, the ternary relationship between three cultural categories/archetypes: the ‘Sabbath,’ ‘Babel,’ and ‘Otherness,’ respectively. ‘Translation’ is treated as the…
This essay offers an interdisciplinary analysis that investigates the connections between religious freedom, the regulation of places of worship, migration phenomena also in relation to the experience of work, and the protection of fundamental personal rights. All of these are analyzed focusing on the processes of the construction of legal…
