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Съвременни конституционни модели на държавно-църковни отношения
Contemporary Constitutional Models of Churchstate Relations

Author(s): Borislav Tsekov
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Constitution; faith; religions; secularism

Summary/Abstract: The relations between the state and the religion have constantly being part of the development of the aggregate of state and society. Today, a new understanding of religion is observed under the conditions of the secularized governance of modern constitutional state. The article addresses the dual nature of the constitutional freedom of religion, which comprises, on the one hand, religion as part of the individual private sphere of the personality, inviolable to state interference (forum internum), and, on the other hand - the right to public expression and practice of religion in the social environment as well as through affiliation to religious organizations (forum externum), which is subject to certain restrictions in the presence of explicitly regulated constitutional grounds. A comparative constitutional law analysis is conducted of contemporary church-state relations in Europe and the USA. It is in this con- text that focus is brought to the place of the Bulgarian constitutional model of church-state relations.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 87-106
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian