Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches / / edited by Olga Breskaya, Roger Finke, Giuseppe Giordan.

• Superior document: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion ; 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Finke, Roger,; Breskaya, Olga,; Giordan, Giuseppe,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004468080
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Olga Breskaya, Roger Finke, Giuseppe Giordan.

This volume offers original research on religious freedom from around the globe. Individual chapters address the issues related to defining and understanding the concept of religious freedom and incorporate sociological thinking into interdisciplinary analysis of this topic. By interpreting legal cases, analyzing cross-national data, interviewing policy-makers, and reviewing policy-papers concerning religious freedom, the authors highlight the necessity of sociology engaging with other disciplines in this type of research. By applying theories of religious pluralism, secularity, secularization, judicialization of religion, "lived religion", total institutions, and others, this volume contributes theoretical perspectives, sociological concepts and empirical analyses that highlight the development of religious freedom as an area of study in the social sciences.