Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches / / 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 ca...

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Superior document:Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion ; 12
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction-Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches
  •   Olga Breskaya, Roger Finke, and Giuseppe Giordan
  • PART 1
  • Religious Freedom, Secularity and Secularism
  • 1 How does Secularity "Travel"?: Toward a Policy Mobilities Approach in the Study of Religious Freedoms
  •   Efe Peker
  • 2 Religious Freedom, Legal Activism, and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of Secularism
  •   Anindita Chakrabarti
  • 3 Religious Freedom and Secularism in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
  •   Anna Grasso
  • 4 Religious Pluralism, Religious Freedom and the Secularization Process in the Greek Educational System
  •   Alexandros Sakellariou
  • PART 2
  • Multi-level Study of Religious Freedom
  • 5 Regulating Sincerity: Religion, Law, Public Policy, and the Ambivalence of Religious Freedom in Pluralist Societies
  •   Zaheeda P. Alibhai
  • 6 The Religionization in Alevi Culture: An Exploratory Study on Spiritual Leaders ( Dede s)
  •   Nuran Erol Işık
  • 7 One, Many or None: Religious Truth-Claims and Social Perception of Religious Freedom
  •   Olga Breskaya and Giuseppe Giordan
  • 8 Religious Freedom in Prisons: A Case Study from the Czech Republic
  •   Jan Váně and Lukáš Dirga
  • PART 3
  • b> Politics and Policies on Religious Freedom
  • 9 Organizations and Religious Restrictions: An International Overview of the Intersection of State and Non-Governmental Organizations and Religious Groups
  •   Dane R. Mataic and Kerby Goff
  • 10 Religious Freedom between Politics and Policies: Social and Legal Conflicts over Catholic Religious Education in Italy, 1984-1992
  •   Guillaume Silhol
  • 11 The Measure of Cedaw: Religion, Religious Freedom, and the Rights of Women
  •   Barbara R. Walters
  • 12 Religious Freedom and Religionization of World Politics: Views of EU Political and Religious Representatives
  •   Chrysa K. Almpani
  • Index.