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This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Estonia and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims.
The book compiled and Annotated by Ringo Ringvee, Religious Affairs Department, Estonian Ministry of the Interior.
This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Estonia and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Estonian language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals’ access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.
Ringo Ringvee, Ph.D. (2011), is Adviser at the Religious Affairs Department of the Estonian Ministry of the Interior and Professor of Comparative Religion at the Theological Institute of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. He has published on the legal situation of minority religions and relations between the State and religious communities.
Table of contents
1. Status of religious communities
2. Relations between the state and Islam
3. State support for Islamic religious communities
4. Mosques and prayer houses
5. Burials and cemeteries
6. Education and schools
7. Islamic chaplaincy in public institutions
8. Employment and social law
9. Islamic slaughter and food regulation
10. Islamic goods and services
11. Islamic dress
12. Criminal law
13. Family law
Bibliographic Information
Title: Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Estonia
Author: Ringo Ringvee
Publisher: BRILL
Language: English and Estonian
Length: 140 pages
ISBN:9789004299566
Pub. Date: July 2015
