RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND ANIMAL SACRIFICE RITUALS

This work intends to analyze to what extent animal protection may be a limit to animal sacrifice rituals. It's a delicate point if we agree that religious freedom should be understood not only as a right to hold religion belief, but also the right to self-determination based on the same religion beliefs. On the other hand, if there are no 'absolute' rights, the premise above, even though it is necessary to depict such case as a constitutional problem, it is far from sufficient. In this scenario, I try to identify minimally safe criteria to a constitutional interpretation that is adequate to those values when it comes to animal sacrifice rituals.