Ani Sarkissian

The Varieties of Religious Repression

Why Governments Restrict Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Varieties of Religious Repression argues that seemingly benign regulations and restrictions on religion are tools that non-democratic leaders use to repress independent civic activity, effectively maintaining their hold on power. Ani Sarkissian examines the interaction of political competition and the structure of religious divisions in society, presenting a theory of the variances of religious repression across non-democratic regimes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199348084
• ISBN-10: 0199348081
• Artikelnr.: 47871081

Autorenporträt

Ani Sarkissian is Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Chapter 1. Introduction: Religion, Rights, and Repression
* Chapter 2. Varieties of Religious Repression
* Chapter 3. Regulation as Control: State Repression of All Religious
Groups
* Chapter 4. Repressing Most by Favoring One
* Chapter 5. The Power to Choose: Selective State Repression of
Religious Groups
* Chapter 6. Paradoxical or Rational? Religious Freedom in
Non-Democratic States
* Chapter 7. Conclusion: Why Religious Repression Matters
* Appendices
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index