A sociology of religious freedom
In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-level policy development, as well as interfaith negotiations. Meanwhile, scholarship on religious freedom has flourished on the boundaries of sociology,...
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1 Toward a Sociology of Religious Freedom
- 1.1. Aims of a sociology of religious freedom
- 1.2. What does thinking sociologically about religious freedom really mean?
- 1.3. Four sociological perspectives on religious freedom
- 1.4. Religious freedom as a multidimensional concept
- 1.5. The structure of the book
- 2 Sociology, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom
- 2.1. Defining religious freedom within a human rights framework
- 2.2. The normative and value-laden nature of human rights
- 2.3. Legality and social implementation of human rights
- 2.4. Legal universalism and cultural conditionality of human rights
- 2.5. Microsociology of law and continuum of freedom
- 2.6. Differentiation of societies and institutionalization of human rights
- 2.7. Religious freedom between secularization and rational choice theory
- 3 Elements of Sociology of Religious Freedom
- 3.1. Recurrent structural conditions of religious freedom
- 3.2. Religious pluralism at the micro level
- 3.3. Social perceptions of religious freedom
- 3.4. Functions of religious freedom
- 4 Social Construction of Religious Freedom in Legal Systems
- 4.1. The juridification of religion and citizens' awareness of rights
- 4.2. Legal regulation of religion and religious change
- 4.3. Legal definition of religion
- 4.4. Legal regulation and social control
- 4.5. Social effects of juridification of religion
- 4.6. Bringing together legal and social implementations of religious freedom
- 5 The Judicialization of Religious Freedom: Theoretical Concepts
- 5.1. Structural and institutional characteristics of legal systems conducive to the judicialization of religious freedom
- 5.2. Dejudicialization of religious freedom: Is this the future?
- 5.3. Legal pluralism and religious freedom
- 5.4. Countries with conditions not supportive of religious freedom
- 5.5. Excursus on minority religions in court
- 6 Sociology of Religious Freedom in the Legal Systems of Europe and the United States
- 6.1. The US Supreme Court and religious freedom: Early history
- 6.2. European court systems and the judicialization of religious freedom in Europe
- 6.3. The Court of Justice of the European Union
- 6.4. Judicialization or dejudicialization?
- 7 Measuring Religious Freedom
- 7.1. Work in progress: Study of the conceptual framework of Article 18
- 7.2. Religious freedom and methods of human rights research
- 7.3. Challenges of measuring religious freedom at the national level
- 7.4. Cross-national analysis of religious freedom
- 8 Social Perceptions of Religious Freedom
- 8.1. Individual-level study of religious freedom
- 8.2. Five dimensions of social perceptions of religious freedom