将土著信仰定罪:乌干达巫术法的宪法缺陷

IF 0.4 Q3 LAW

Oxford Journal of Law and Religion Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI:10.1093/ojlr/rwad014

Busingye Kabumba

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摘要

1995年的乌干达宪法包含重要的人权保障，包括宗教、言论和结社自由。与此同时，在殖民时期颁布的一项法律继续存在，该法律将非洲传统宗教的某些方面定为“巫术”。本文考虑了该法在多大程度上与宪法所承诺和保护的自由相一致。最后，它认为，宪法治理和纠正历史不公正的必要性要求废除乌干达的巫术法和所有相关的法律法规。

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Criminalizing Indigenous Belief: The Constitutional Deficits of Uganda’s Witchcraft Act

Abstract The 1995 Constitution of Uganda contains important human rights guarantees, including the freedoms of religion, expression, and association. At the same time, there continues to exist a law, first enacted during the colonial period, which criminalizes—as ‘witchcraft’—certain aspects of African traditional religion. This article considers the extent to which this law is consistent with the liberties promised and protected under the Constitution. Ultimately, it contends that the imperatives of both constitutional governance and the redress of historical injustice mandate a repeal of Uganda’s Witchcraft Act and all related legal enactments.

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期刊介绍： Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of religion in public life and a concomitant array of legal responses. This has led in turn to the proliferation of research and writing on the interaction of law and religion cutting across many disciplines. The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (OJLR) will have a range of articles drawn from various sectors of the law and religion field, including: social, legal and political issues involving the relationship between law and religion in society; comparative law perspectives on the relationship between religion and state institutions; developments regarding human and constitutional rights to freedom of religion or belief; considerations of the relationship between religious and secular legal systems; and other salient areas where law and religion interact (e.g., theology, legal and political theory, legal history, philosophy, etc.). The OJLR reflects the widening scope of study concerning law and religion not only by publishing leading pieces of legal scholarship but also by complementing them with the work of historians, theologians and social scientists that is germane to a better understanding of the issues of central concern. We aim to redefine the interdependence of law, humanities, and social sciences within the widening parameters of the study of law and religion, whilst seeking to make the distinctive area of law and religion more comprehensible from both a legal and a religious perspective. We plan to capture systematically and consistently the complex dynamics of law and religion from different legal as well as religious research perspectives worldwide. The OJLR seeks leading contributions from various subdomains in the field and plans to become a world-leading journal that will help shape, build and strengthen the field as a whole.