The Legal Protection of Atheism in Italy. Comparative elements with the Legal Systems of some European Countries.
From the very beginning of the Constituent Assembly, the protection of Atheism has assumed ambiguous profiles. Protection of non-believers, freedom of conscience and Principle of Secularism don’t have an explicit reference in our Constitution. As a consequence of this, the jurisprudence practice had to face many criticisms which led to a heated doctrinal debate, still alive today.
A substantial deficit in the legal protection of non-believers can be found through the study of historical legal cases, the analysis of some of the current practical problems of freedom in religion and beliefs and the comparison between Italian law and European Legal Systems.
This doctoral dissertation, transposing all the evolutionary inputs from European and international law, is not only theoretical but it also proposes hypotheses of operational strategies in order to make Italian Legal System more responsive to the effective implementation of the Supreme Principle of Secularism
