Religion, Law and the Constitution: Balancing Beliefs in Britain

This text co-authored by Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall is an important and timely contribution to debates concerning law and religion in Britain. The central question the book takes up “is whether the constitutional arrangements and wider legal framework concerning religion enhances or weakens” foundational constitutional principles such as rule of law, separation of powers, parliamentary supremacy, and human rights (p. 7). What animates this question is the fact that, while Britain is not alone in having a “religious constitution,” it is an anomaly in the “culturally pluralistic and politically secular Western world” (p. 6).