Recently the European Court of Human Rights decided to allow the display of crucifixes in public school classrooms (Lautsi and Others v. Italy, March 18). As Justin Reynolds noted here a few days ago, this decision applies not only to Italy, where a lower court previously reached the opposite verdict, but to all 47 member nations. In a New York Times piece, Stanley Fish outlines the reasoning of the court and analyzes the implications of its decision.
Posts Tagged ‘Stanley Fish’
October 26th, 2010
Muffling the conflict
posted by Jonathan VanAntwerpenStanley Fish on John Milbank’s contribution to “Shari’a in the West”.
April 14th, 2010
New Habermas dialogues on religion and secularism
posted by Grace YukichAn op-ed by Stanley Fish in Monday’s New York Times discusses a new publication comprising the proceedings from a course of dialogues between Habermas and four Jesuit academics in 2007. They have previously appeared in German, but they are now being published in English for the first time under the title An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age.
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