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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Regulating Religion
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Special Problem Areas in Western Europe
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More Tolerant European Countries
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Former Communist Countries and the Treatment of Minority Religions
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About this book
Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regulating Religion
Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Around the Globe
Editors: James T. Richardson
Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9094-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47886-4Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47887-1Published: 31 December 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9094-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1572-1906
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 578
Topics: Sociology, general, Social Sciences, general, Public International Law, Religious Studies, general