FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND THE RELATION BETWEEN CONSTITUTION AND THE ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA
FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND THE RELATION BETWEEN CONSTITUTION AND THE ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

Summary/Abstract: Being part of the public sphere, religion and faith inevitably have meeting points with the state and its legal order, where it should be noted that the history of a large number of legal institutions is permeated by the influence of religion since the issues of sovereignty, in the contemporary issues of human rights, discrimination and coexistence and preservation of diversity in international integrations, or multicultural societies, religion and the legal order are intertwined and mutually determined and this is so at different levels and in different aspects - both in terms of achieving the individual dimension of religious freedom, and in terms of the legal status of religious communities and other religious associations as an expression of the collective dimension of religious freedom, from the general pattern of relations to the details of that relation in "the various points of relationship" between religion and public order, such as public holidays, the autonomous legal order of the religious traditions, its application and protection, the education system, public broadcasting, the use and protection of religious symbols, worship in public places, the construction of cult objects, the oaths of public servants, the promotion and protection of religious heritage where many of these issues regulate or the autonomous legal order of religious communities, or the law of state religion, or the law of religious communities understood as a legal branch of the state legal order that includes norms that regulate relations between the state and religious communities.In this statement freedom of belief and the mutual relationship between the constitutional legal framework and the Islamic Religious Community in the Republic of North Macedonia will be analyzed.

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