The Italian system of rules on religious symbols in the public sphere offers a sufficiently broad guarantee to the rights of freedom of religion and conscience, whose exercise appears to be guaranteed and circumscribed only within the limits of what is strictly necessary, according to reasonableness and proportionality criteria.
The Italian system of rules on religious symbols in the public sphere offers a sufficiently broad guarantee to the rights of freedom of religion and conscience, whose exercise appears to be guaranteed and circumscribed only within the limits of what is strictly necessary, according to reasonableness and proportionality criteria.
This chapter aims to investigate the influence of international law on
the constitutional protection of religious freedom in Italy. Religious freedom has historically
played a decisive role in the evolution of rights protection; therefore the regulation
of the religious phenomenon is suitable to a multilevel protection having effects on constitutional
protection. The essay examines in particular the two areas of greatest influence
of international law on religious freedom: the relationship between Italy and the
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