Diritto penale e religione tra modelli nazionali e giurisprudenza di Strasburgo (Italia, Regno Unito e Francia)

[Autom. eng. transl.] The volume, through a double comparative path, analyzes the forms of penal protection of religion proposed by Italy, France and the United Kingdom, crossing the analysis of these three case studies with the jurisprudence on the subject, of the European Court of Human Rights. The close correlation between State-Church relationship systems and national models of protection articulates the development of the first path, innovated, in the most recent phase, by the establishment at national and European level of fundamental human rights and freedoms. The “harmonizing” jurisprudential activity of the Strasbourg Court, as emerges from the development of the second comparative path, has favored the affirmation of a new sensibility that is expressed in the new model of penal protection from religion, through the increasingly frequent presence in the national, European and international legislation of criminal cases against racial and religious hatred.