Reactions To The Law By Minority Religions

Author : Eileen Barker,James T. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000333244

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Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions by Eileen Barker,James T. Richardson Pdf

Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves. An international panel of experts offer examples from North America, Europe and Asia demonstrating how religions with relatively little status may resort to violence or passive acceptance of the law; how they may change their beliefs or practices in order to be in compliance with the law; or how they may resort to the law itself in order to change their legal standing, sometimes by forging alliances with those with more power or authority to achieve their goals. The volume concludes by applying theoretical insights from sociological studies of law, religion and social movements to the variety of responses. The first systematic collection focussing on how minority religions respond to efforts at social control by various governmental agents, this book provides a vital reference for scholars of religion and the law, new religious movements, minority religions and the sociology of religion.

Author : David M. Kirkham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351898065

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State Responses to Minority Religions by David M. Kirkham Pdf

The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world. In some places, religions come as close as imaginable to autonomous existences with little interference from government. In other cases religion finds itself grinding out a meagre living, if at all, under the jealously watchful eye of the state. This book provides a legal and normative overview of the variety of responses to minority religions available to states. Exploring case studies ranging from Islamic regions such as Indonesia, Pakistan, and the wider Middle East, to Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China, Russia, Canada, and the Baltics, contributors include international scholars and experts in law, sociology, religious studies, and political science. This book offers invaluable perspectives on how minority religions are currently being received, reviewed, challenged, or ignored in different parts of the world.

Author : Eileen Barker,James T. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000333367

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Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions by Eileen Barker,James T. Richardson Pdf

Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves. An international panel of experts offer examples from North America, Europe and Asia demonstrating how religions with relatively little status may resort to violence or passive acceptance of the law; how they may change their beliefs or practices in order to be in compliance with the law; or how they may resort to the law itself in order to change their legal standing, sometimes by forging alliances with those with more power or authority to achieve their goals. The volume concludes by applying theoretical insights from sociological studies of law, religion and social movements to the variety of responses. The first systematic collection focussing on how minority religions respond to efforts at social control by various governmental agents, this book provides a vital reference for scholars of religion and the law, new religious movements, minority religions and the sociology of religion.

Author : James T. Richardson,François Bellanger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317106395

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Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths by James T. Richardson,François Bellanger Pdf

New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases to examine social control efforts. The legal cases involve group leaders, a groups’ practices or alleged abuses against members and children in the group, legal actions brought by former members or third parties, attacks against such groups by outsiders including even governments, and libel and slander actions brought by religious groups as they seek to defend themselves. These cases are sometimes milestones in the relation between state authorities and religious groups. Exploring cases in different parts of the world, and assessing the events causing such cases and their consequences, this book offers a practical insight for understanding the relations of NRMs and other minority religions and the law from the perspective of legal cases. Chapters focus on legal, political, and social implications. Including contributions from scholars, legal practitioners, actual or former members, and authorities involved in such cases from various jurisdictions, this book presents an objective approach to understanding why so many legal actions have involved NRMs and other minority faiths in recent years in western societies, and the consequences of those actions for the society and the religious group as well.

Author : Kathryn O'Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004398252

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Minority Religions under Irish Law by Kathryn O'Sullivan Pdf

Minority Religions under Irish Law focuses the spotlight specifically on the legal protections afforded in Ireland to minority religions, generally, and to the Muslim community, in particular.

Author : Peter William Edge
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480827

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Legal Responses to Religious Differences by Peter William Edge Pdf

Until recently English law has lacked any specific, generally applicable, guarantees of religious rights. Thus, bodies of law have developed in particular areas where religious interests arise but without a common legal frame. The Human Rights Act 1998, however, has brought the guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights, most specifically the guarantees of religious rights, non-discrimination, and education rights, more fully into English law. As well as showing how one legal system has engaged with international obligations in respect of religious rights, this text provides a valuable source for comparative study of religious interests in national jurisdictions. It explores the particular response of the English legal system when faced with religious difference, and considers the extent to which the Human Rights Act may produce significant legal change. The text is aimed specifically at both the legal and non-legal reader, and concludes with a discussion of how to use English legal sources, and an extensive bibliography.

Author : Richard J. Moon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774858533

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Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada by Richard J. Moon Pdf

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada seeks to elucidate the complex and often uneasy relationship between law and religion in democracies committed both to equal citizenship and religious pluralism. Leading socio-legal scholars consider the role of religious values in public decision making, government support for religious practices, and the restriction and accommodation by government of minority religious practices. They examine such current issues as the legal recognition of sharia arbitration, the re-definition of civil marriage, and the accommodation of religious practice in the public sphere.

Author : Effie Fokas,James T Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429954405

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The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions by Effie Fokas,James T Richardson Pdf

This book includes a collection of studies focused on engagements of religious minorities with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Beginning with an introduction of the global importance of the ECtHR as a standard setter in the protection of religious minority rights, the subsequent five chapters entail critical assessments of some of the Court’s case law dealing with religious minority claims (exploring their clarity and consistency – or lack thereof – and controversiality). In the process these texts impart a nuanced perspective on the challenges the Court faces in striking the right balance between protecting individual freedoms and respecting state rights to manage ‘nationally’ and ‘culturally’ sensitive matters. The second set of contributions makes readers privy to the varied results of this balancing act on the ground. Specifically, it offers empirically-based insight into the impact of the Court’s religion-related case law on grassroots religious minority groups working to defend their individual and communal rights. The chapters taken together deepen our understanding of the ECtHR in its approach to and impact on religious minorities and offer a rare vantage point on the Court, from the messages its generates to the messages received by religious minorities at the grassroots level. The chapters in this book were originally published in Religion, State & Society, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs and Democratization.

Author : Beth Singler,Eileen Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351851220

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Radical Transformations in Minority Religions by Beth Singler,Eileen Barker Pdf

All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; Jediism; various manifestations of Paganism; LGBT Muslim groups; the Plymouth Brethren; Santa Muerte; and Satanism. As with other books in the Routledge/Inform series, the contributors approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives: professional scholars include legal experts and sociologists specialising in new religious movements, but there are also chapters from those who have experienced a personal involvement. The volume is divided into four thematic parts that focus on different impetuses for radical change: interactions with society, technology and institutions, efforts at legitimation, and new revelations. This book will be a useful source of information for social scientists, historians, theologians and other scholars with an interest in social change, minority religions and ‘cults’. It will also be of interest to a wider readership including lawyers, journalists, theologians and members of the general public.

Author : Al Khanif
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000168563

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Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law by Al Khanif Pdf

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world’s largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government may address issues through reconciling international human rights law and Islamic law. Given the context of multiple sets of religious norms in Indonesia, this is a complicated endeavour. In addition to amending and enacting human rights norms, the government is also negotiating with the long history of Islamisation in Indonesia. Particularly relevant is the practice of customary law, which puts the rights of community over individualism. This practice directly affects the rights of religious minorities within Islam. Readers, especially those conducting research, will also be provided with information and references which are relevant to the field of human rights, especially in relation to religious minorities and international law. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the fields of International Human Rights Law, Law and Religion, and Islamic Studies.

Author : Javaid Rehman,Susan Carolyn Breau
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158269

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Religion, Human Rights and International Law by Javaid Rehman,Susan Carolyn Breau Pdf

Freedom of religion is a subject, which has throughout human history been a source of profound disagreements and conflict. In the modern era, religious-based intolerance continues to provide lacerative and tormenting concern to the possibility of congenial human relationships. As the present study examines, religions have been relied upon to perpetuate discrimination and inequalities, and to victimise minorities to the point of forcible assimilation and genocide. The study provides an overview of the complexities inherent in the freedom of religion within international law and an analysis of the cultural-religious relativist debate in contemporary human rights law. As many of the chapters examine, Islamic State practices have been a major source of concern. In the backdrop of the events of 11 September 2001, a considerable focus of this volume is upon the Muslim world, either through the emergent State practices and existing constitutional structures within Muslim majority States or through Islamic diasporic communities resident in Europe and North-America.

Author : James T. Richardson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0306478870

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Regulating Religion by James T. Richardson Pdf

Regulation of minority faiths varies greatly around the globe, with some countries allowing them considerable freedom to exist, recruit new members, raise money, and use public facilities. Other societies are more closed to the presence of such groups, either native or foreign. The pattern of reactions to minority religious movements is not easily explained by reference to usual terms. Knowledge of historical factors in the various countries, coupled with a use of selected theories from sociology of religion and sociology of law, can assist understanding of the situation in various countries. Explicating these complex relationships is the challenge of this volume. 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 Americ

Author : Madanmohan Singh Khalsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 9350530295

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Religious Minorities and Constitutional Law by Madanmohan Singh Khalsa Pdf

Author : Daniele Ferrari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000424003

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Legal Code of Religious Minority Rights by Daniele Ferrari Pdf

This volume presents a systematic collection of the various international legal sources that define the rights of religious minorities. In a time of increasing tensions around religious minorities, this volume presents a systematic collection of international and European documents on the protection and promotion of religious minorities’ rights. The code includes documents from the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Union. An index system connects the various sources and norms, and emphasizes the strengths and the weaknesses in the legal frameworks of international and European institutions. While allowing for further research on the historical and conceptual development in the area, the code provides the reader with a new, easily accessible tool facilitating experts and actors who wish to improve the knowledge and protection of religious minorities. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers interested in law and religion, international law, public law and human rights law, the code is also a powerful tool for minorities themselves, and for advocates of their rights.

Author : Hashemi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047431534

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Religious Legal Traditions, International Human Rights Law and Muslim States by Hashemi Pdf

Considering the subject of Islam and Human Rights, the book tackles three areas that have been largely ignored in literature. It undertakes a comparative study of the laws of several Muslim States with respect to religious freedom, minorities and the rights of the child.