Right To Religious Liberty

The Right to Religious Liberty/Freedom: a Socio-legal Panorama
Alemnew Gebeyehu Dessie
Fourth Year LL.B Student & President of Law Students’ Association
Debre Markos University, School of Law
Debre Markos, Ethiopia
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Abstract

Religious liberty being one indispensable aspect of human rights, it needs to be understood, researched and we have to hold a common stand what it is from socio-legal perspective. Hence, this article is indebted to critically analyze its meaning, nature, and historical background from the social point of view; and its legal back up from the different international legal instruments. In dealing with religious liberty, this article is confined to clearly

The idea of religious liberty is one of the important findings in global history, yet it needs reaffirmation and re-articulation throughout different times, culture, and society. Nowadays, this activity could not be given more emphasis. In a world of diversified and inter related religion, cultivating and protecting freedom of conscience and belief is an ideal tool of enabling societies to live with religious differences in a peaceful manner. Paradoxically, at the very time that this wisdom is becoming widely recognized, religious freedom is under siege. It is hostage to secular states and theocratic regimes, to inertial bureaucracies and social repression, to academic indifference and elite hostility. Comfortable religious communities take it for granted; dominant have contributed a lot for it in combating the corrupting behavior of the state. Without clarity about the universal human aspiration for meaning and belonging at the heart of religion, there are counterproductive cycles of repression, conflict and violence, and further repression in the arena of religious liberty. For this, here is religious liberty which breaks this problem being a means by itself. Via enhanced thinking and action of politicians, public administrators, religious persons, academicians, and citizens can found self-reinforcing positive

When such scenarios occurred, unity, solidarity, and harmonious life of humankind will be materialized. So, the issue of religious liberty is a very broad and significant factor among the contemporary global agendas, where deeply entrenched, universal, inclusive and integrative core value should be adopted. To do all these things, it needs to frame religious liberty a right of every