Regime constitucional do direito privado das organizações religiosas

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Othon Moreno de Medeiros
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito
• Departamento: Constituição e Garantias de Direitos
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Direito constitucional; Direito eclesiástico do estado; Liberdade religiosa; Direitos e garantias individuais e coletivos; Direito privado; Pessoas jurídicas; Organizações religiosas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Constitutional law; Church-state law; Ecclesiastical law; Religious freedom; Collective religious rights; Civil liberties; Corporations; Corporations in brazilian law; Religious organizations
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/13988

In Brazil, constitutional clauses regarding religious freedom have concrete applications in Private Law. Church-State Law, or "Ecclesiastical Law of the State," studies the legal principles which may be applicable to religious activity, exercised individually and collectively. The study of Church-State Law in Brazil lacks a thorough introduction to the constitutional and civil aspects of religious organizations: such an introduction is the main end of this work. Following a brief introduction, the main aspects of religious freedom and the principle of private autonomy as it concerns religious organizations are explained. A careful introductory analysis of Church-State Law in Brazil is thus developed: (1) the historical aspects, including a detailed account of the relations between Catholicism, the established religion up to 1889, and the government; (2) the current constitutional principles, as presented in the text of the federal Constitution of 1988, regarding the rights and claims of religious organizations; (3) how the same constitutional principles are to be used in the interpretation of Private Law (especially the Civil Code of 2002), fostering and preserving the uniqueness of religious organizations in the Brazilian legal system. A brief complementary chapter presents some aspects of the legal position of religious institutions in three other nations whose constitutional documents have influenced the current Brazilian federal Constitution (France, Spain, and the United States)