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Regulating Religion

Case Studies from Around the Globe

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. James T. Richardson

    1. University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, USA

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Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Social Justice (CISJ)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Regulating Religion

    1. Regulating Religion

      • James T. Richardson
      Pages 1-22

  3. Special Problem Areas in Western Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-26
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    2. ‘Laïcité,’ ‘Dystopia,’ and the Reaction to New Religious Movements in France

      • James A. Beckford
      Pages 27-40

    3. Anti-Cultism in the French Parliament

      • Cyrille Duvert
      Pages 41-52

    4. Is There a Unique French Policy of Cults?

      • Nathalie Luca
      Pages 53-72

    5. Holy Mountains and Anti-Cult Ecology

      • Massimo Introvigne
      Pages 73-83

    6. The German Enquete Commission on Sects

      • Hubert Seiwert
      Pages 85-101

    7. Germany’s Islamic Minority

      • Wolf Aires
      Pages 103-112

    8. Belgium's Anti-Sect Policy

      • Willy Fautre
      Pages 113-125

    9. Pseudoscience versus Minority Religions

      • Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins
      Pages 127-149

    10. Brainwashing Theories in European Parliamentary and Administrative Reports on Cults and Sects

      • James T. Richardson, Massimo Introvigne
      Pages 151-178

    11. The Twelve Tribes Messianic Communities, the Anti-Cult Movement, and Governmental Response

      • Jean A. Swantko
      Pages 179-200

  4. More Tolerant European Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-202
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    2. New Religions in the Republic of Italy

      • Michael W. Homer
      Pages 203-212

    3. Foredoomed to Failure

      • Richard Singelenberg
      Pages 213-219

    4. Regulating New Religions in Denmark

      • Mikael Rothstein
      Pages 221-235

    5. Social Justice and Minority Religions in Prison

      • James A. Beckford
      Pages 237-242

  5. Former Communist Countries and the Treatment of Minority Religions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-245
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    2. Legal Regulation of Religions in Russia

      • James T. Richardson, Galina A. Krylova, Marat S. Shterin
      Pages 247-257
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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.

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  • University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, USA

    James T. Richardson

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