Religion and the Secular State: Now Available in Final Form

Professor Javier Martínez-Torrón of the Law Faculty of Complutense University in Madrid and Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr., Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University, General Reporters for the topic “Religion and the Secular State” for The 18th World Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, along with Donlu Thayer, Project Editor, are pleased to announce the publication in final form of the National Reports prepared on this topic.

The World Congress is the once-every-four-years meeting of the experts of the International Academy of Comparative Law. The 18th Congress, held in Washington, DC, in July 2010, was the first gathering of this 90-year-old Academy to be held in the United States. The Reports prepared on the topic Religion and the Secular State for this occasion by 58 experts representing 47 countries were published in interim form in 2010 by Brigham Young University, for review by authors and other interested parties. Many reports have now been updated by the authors and the editor for this final 900-page publication, which has beeb issued by the press of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The occasion for the publication was The 19th World Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Vienna in July 2014. 

The book is now available for ordering at [email protected]. Individual chapters, in a pre-print version, may be seen at the links below.

Forewords to the 2010 & 2015 Publications and Table of Contents