Religious Freedom

Thinking Sociologically
Herausgeber: Breskaya, Olga; Zrins&; Giordan, Giuseppe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book fills the gap in the scholarship on religious freedom by focusing on sociological dimensions and research methods. It will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Religion, Sociology, Comparative Studies, Research Methods and Social Sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032557663
• ISBN-10: 1032557664
• Artikelnr.: 68100375

Autorenporträt

Olga Breskaya, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. Her research focuses on the sociology of human rights and comparative study of religious freedom. Giuseppe Giordan is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. His research interests include spirituality, religious pluralism, conversion, interfaith dialogue, Eastern Orthodoxy, and religious freedom. Sinia Zrin¿ak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His main scientific interests include religious changes in post-communism, state-church relations, religion and human rights, and comparative social policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction- Religious freedom: thinking sociologically 1. New frontiers
of religious freedom? LGBTQ rights versus religious conscience 2. The power
of "unintended": Islamisation, freedom, and religiosity among the graduates
of modern religious schools in post-revolutionary Iran 3. Social
construction of religious freedom: a comparative study among youth in Italy
and Russia 4. COVID-19, Shcincheonji, and the limits of South Korean
secularism: The Devil in Patient 31 5. Mission not accomplished: the
response of the State of Israel and NGOs to Christian missionary activity,
1966-1986