Civil liberties, national security and prospects for consensus: legal, philosophical and religious perspectives

Abstract

Part I. The Security-Liberty Debate: 1. Safety and security Jeremy Waldron 2. Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age Conor Gearty 3. Secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion Tariq Modood Part II. Impact on Society: The Management of Unease: 4. From cartoons to crucifixes: current controversies concerning the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression before the European Court of Human Rights Malcolm Evans 5. Building a consensus on 'national security' in Britain: terrorism, human rights and 'core values' - the Labour Government (a retrospective examination) Derek McGhee 6. Terror, reason and rights Eric Metcalfe Part III. Religious Dimensions: 7. Religiously-rooted engagement in the relationship between human rights and security: a socio-anthropological approach Charlotte Alfred 8. The elimination of mutilation and torture in Rabbinic thought and practice: a Jewish comment amidst the civil liberties, national security debate David Novak 9. Narrating religious insecurity: Islamic-Western conceptions of mutual threat Abdelwahab El-Affendi 10. Security and the State: a Christian Realist perspective on the world since 9/11 Robin Lovin.