This publication examines concerns of non secular freedom in Europe, considers the paintings of the eu courtroom of Human Rights during this region, explores problems with multiculturalism and secularism in France, of girls in Islam, and of Muslims within the West. The paintings offers criminal research and ethnographic fieldwork, targeting thoughts reminiscent of laïcité, submission, equality and the function of the kingdom in public schooling, among others. via this publication, the reader can stopover at inside of a French public institution positioned in a low-income local simply south of Paris and know about the advanced dynamics that led as much as the passing of the 2004 legislation banning Muslim headscarves. The chapters convey to gentle the actors and cultures in the tuition that set the degree for the passing of the legislation and the political philosophy that helps it. tuition tradition and philosophy are in comparison and contrasted to the innovations and evaluations of the academics, directors and scholars to gage how spiritual freedom and identification are understood. The booklet is going directly to discover the difficulty of spiritual freedom on the ecu courtroom of Human Rights. the writer argues that definitely the right to spiritual freedom has been too narrowly understood and is being fenced in via static visions of Islam. This jeopardizes the assumption of non secular freedom extra widely. through changing into entangled with local and family politics, the court docket is neglecting very important nuances and is jeopardizing secularism, pluralism and democracy. it is a hugely readable and obtainable ebook that would attract scholars and students of legislations, anthropology, spiritual experiences and philosophy of religion.