This book examines the institutional relationship between religions, political regimes, and human rights.

Institutionalizing rights and religion: introduction Leora Batnitzky and Hanoch Dagan; Part I. Secular Institutions and the Limits of Religious Recognition: 1. Religion in the law: the disaggregation approach Cécile Laborde; 2. The puzzle of the Catholic church Lawrence G. Sager; 3. Religious accommodations and - and among - civil rights: separation, toleration and accommodation Richard W. Garnett; 4. Israeli law and Jewish law in Israel: a zero sum game? Yedidia Z. Stern; 5. Why 'live-and-let-live' is not a viable solution to the difficult problems of religious accommodation in the age of sexual civil rights Mary Anne Case; 6. Control by accommodation: religious jurisdiction among the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel Michael Karayanni; 7. Decentralizing religious and secular accommodations Roderick M. Hills, Jr; 8. In search of the secular Yishai Blank; Part II. The Challenges of Religious Institutions for the Secular State: 9. The 'how many?' question: an institutionalist's guide to pluralism Ori Aronson; 10. Equality in religious schools: the JFS case reconsidered Haim Shapira; 11. Religious freedom as a technology of modern secular governance Peter G. Danchin; 12. Civil regulations of religious marriage from the perspectives of pluralism, human rights and political compromise Shahar Lifshitz; 13. The impact of Supreme Court rulings on the Halakhic status of the official rabbinical courts in Israel Amihai Radzyner; 14. Is conversion a human right?: a comparative look at religious Zionism and Hindu nationalism Leora Batnitzky.