Религиозна толерантност и екология
Religious Tolerance and Ecology

Current Legal Aspects

Author(s): Georgi Penchev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Sociology, Environmental interactions, EU-Legislation
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: religious tolerance; ecology
Summary/Abstract: This study is dedicated to a current and non-investigated up to nowadays problem in our ecology law literature. It is determined, from one hand, from religious and cultural variety of the society in separate countries, and from the other hand, with reinforcing ecological problems on a global level which give a reflection to the activity of the separate religions. At the same time religious tolerance must be mentioned as one of the indicators for democratization of the society. In view of the fact that Christian religion has caused a big influence to the development of the human civilization in the preface are shown some verses from the Holy Bible, and especially from the New Testament where the idea of religious tolerance is on the ground. In this study the attention is paid to a following major legal problems: a) legal characteristics of a basic right to religion of the Bulgarian citizens; b) international law regulation of the subjective right to religion in the light of the participation of the Republic of Bulgaria in a separate international treaties, related to human rights; c) ecological requirements to some activities which cause influence to the exercising of this right, regulated in the Bulgarian environmental legislation. In the conclusion, some more general deductions from the existing regulation and suggestions for its improvement are made.

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