Resumen de Human dignity, paternalism, and religious symbols

Anabela Costa leão, Benedita Mac Crorie

• Western countries are today characterized by cultural diversity, stemming not only but also from migration. In a broad sense, cultural di-versity encompasses religious diversity. Conflicts between dimensions of freedom of religion and other fundamental rights and/or constitutional principles, from equality and human dignity to neutrality and separation between Church and State (whose scope remains, somehow, uncertain), arise frequently.