‘What Is a Man If He Has Words But Has No Deeds?’ Some Remarks on the European Convention of Human Rights

Abstract

The article focuses on religious freedom in European human rights discourse, more precisely in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It asks about the sort of 'religious person' and notion of 'religion' that can be found at the heart of this discourse. The topic is approached by way of reflecting not only on contemporary human rights discourse, but on law and religion more generally, linking this, furthermore, to the religious-secular dichotomy.