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Perfect, David; Perfect, Simon --- "Religion or belief, equality and human rights law and the media" [2019] ELECD 2582; in Sandberg, Russell; Doe, Norman; Kane, Bronach; Roberts, Caroline (eds), "Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 260

Book Title: Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion

Editor(s): Sandberg, Russell; Doe, Norman; Kane, Bronach; Roberts, Caroline

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 14

Section Title: Religion or belief, equality and human rights law and the media

Author(s): Perfect, David; Perfect, Simon

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

Law and religion cases are often in the headlines but law and religion scholars rarely pay attention to the role of the media. This chapter, furthering the sociological literature on how the media represents religion, seeks to remedy this by taking an innovative, dual approach to employment legal cases to do with religion or belief. First, a ‘law-centred’ approach focuses on the impact of the legal cases on the law itself. Second, an alternative, ‘public discourse’ approach analyses how far particular cases have penetrated media consciousness, through quantitative analysis, to examine how the law is viewed by the wider public.