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The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Religious Exercise: Preliminary Remarks

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  • Adelaide Madera

    (Department of Law, University of Messina, 98122 Messina, ME, Italy)

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Since 2020, the spread of COVID-19 has had an overwhelming impact not only on our personal lives, but also on domestic regulatory frameworks. Influential academics have strongly underlined that, in times of deep crisis, such as the current global health crisis, the long-term workability of legal systems is put to a severe test. In this period, in fact, the protection of health has been given priority, as a precondition that is orientating many current legal choices. Such an unprecedented health emergency has also raised a serious challenge in terms of fundamental rights and liberties. Several basic rights that normally enjoy robust protection under constitutional, supranational, and international guarantees, have experienced a devastating “suspension” for the sake of public health and safety, thus giving rise to a vigorous debate concerning whether and to what extent the pandemic emergency justifies limitations on fundamental rights. The present paper introduces the Special Issue on “ The crisis of the religious freedom during the age of COVID-19 pandemic ”. Taking as a starting point the valuable contributions of the participants in the Special Issue, it explores analogous and distinctive implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in different legal contexts and underlines the relevance of cooperation between religious and public actors to face a global health crisis.

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  • Adelaide Madera, 2021. "The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Religious Exercise: Preliminary Remarks," Laws, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-10, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:10:y:2021:i:2:p:44-:d:567510
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