The Reception of the Constitutional Right to Religious Freedom in the Specialized Literature

Abstract

This paper proposes an exhaustive literature review that discusses how Romanian constitutional law literature can reflect the constitutional right to religious freedom. The authors of these academic resources have been recognized through this research as being the ones who shaped and developed the field of constitutional law, and as those who verified the applicability of the constitutional norms in some concrete cases of their juridical praxis. Another dimension of the interaction was with the thematic literature on religious freedom, a body of literature that results from interdisciplinary approaches. The authors of these books are jurists, theologians, historical sociologists, and others, specialists who have shown concern for this field of research. The methodology used in this paper involved a summary analysis of the specialized literature to identify relevant academic sources, as well as possible gaps in research on the right to religious freedom from a constitutional perspective. This paper aims to inspire current debates and future research in the field of constitutional religious freedom guarantee and protection. UDC: [342.4:343.42]:001.891(498)