Stephane Jean-Pierre Pedro Bürki

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Student at the University of Fribourg, following a Bachelor of Law course. I am particularly interested in constitutional law and religious law, particularly in the complex relationships between Churches and State.

The difference between secularism and neutrality in religious matters

by Stephane Jean-Pierre Pedro Bürki | 23/09/2023 | Constitutional Law, Legal History

Prima facie, this work seems to deal with a pure semantic question. However, its implications are extremely important: distinguishing secularism stricto sensu from neutrality, also in the strict sense, is essential to better understand the relations between Churches and State(s) in Switzerland (these relations falling within cantonal competence, each of the cantons adapts them [...]