TY - BOOK AU - Ferrari,Alessandro AU - Pastorelli,Sabrina TI - The burqa affair across Europe: between public and private space T2 - Cultural diversity and law in assocation with RELIGARE SN - 9781409470656 U1 - 342.40852/ 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Burqas (Islamic clothing) KW - Law and legislation KW - Europe KW - Social aspects KW - Freedom of religion KW - Religious minorities KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Religion and sociology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Alessandro Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli; In praise of pragmatism; Silvio Ferrari; Burqa and Islam; Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz; Burqa, niqab and women's rights; Letizia Mancini; A besieged right: religious freedom and the Italian war on the burqa and the niqab; Alessandro Ferrari; The burqa affair in France; Anne Fornerod; Legal and social issues concerning the wearing of the burqa and other head coverings in the United Kingdom; Mark Hill; Introducing a general burqa ban in the Netherlands; Adriaan Overbeeke; The burqa affair in Spain: legal perspectives; Agustín Motilla; The Belgian 'burqa ban': legal aspects of local and general prohibitions on covering and concealing one's face in Belgium; Jogchum Vrielink, Saïla Ouald Chaib and Eva Brems; A quest for open helmets: on the Danish burqa affair; Lisbet Christoffersen; Burqa in Germany: not really an issue: a short note; Jörn Thielmann and Kathrin Vorholzer; The anti-burqa movement in Western Europe; Ralph Grillo and Prakash Shah; The burqa in Europe: European institutions and the comparative-interdisciplinary approach; Daniele Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli; The European burqa debates: past, present and future/ Maleiha Malik; The RELIGARE-Como declaration on the issue of the burqa ER -