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Sex, God, and Blasphemy

VIKARSKÁ, Zuzana

Basic information

Original name

Sex, God, and Blasphemy

Authors

Edition

Verfassungsblog, 2022, 2366-7044

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku (nerecenzovaný)

Field of Study

50500 5.5 Law

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Organization unit

Faculty of Law

DOI

Keywords in English

blasphemy; religion; ECtHR; human rights; Dominik Duka
Změněno: 21/12/2022 13:22, JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

First, the Czech Constitutional Court rejected the complaint of Mr Duka, a Czech catholic archbishop and cardinal who felt offended in his religious feelings by a controversial performance staged in Brno. Second, in Bouton v France, the ECtHR ruled in favour of Ms Bouton who was criminally sanctioned for exposing her breasts in a Paris church as part of an activist action. In this blogpost, I argue that although both cases ended well, i.e. were decided in favour of freedom of expression of artists and activists, both courts erred in their assessment of the role of religion and religious sentiment in European secular democracies.