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This book explores state responses to minority religions in four parts. The first chapter provides a legal and normative overview of the variety of responses available to states. Part II looks at Islamic majority countries, and part III focuses on Western Europe.
List of contents
Contents: Foreword, Heiner Bielefeldt; Preface, David M. Kirkham; Part I Minority Religions and International Legal and Ethical Norms - an Overview: State reactions to minority religions: a legal overview, W. Cole Durham Jr; The UN Human Rights Committee and religious minorities, Nazila Ghanea. Part II Minority Religions and Islam: Religious minorities and conversion as national security threats in Turkey and Iran, Ziya Meral; Springtime for freedom of religion or belief: will newly democratic Arab states guarantee international human rights norms or perpetuate their violation?, Robert C. Blitt; Indonesia: between religious harmony and religious freedom, Renata Arianingtyas; A legal analysis of Ahmadi persecution in Pakistan, Asma T. Uddin. Part III Atlantic Models - Religious Minorities, Diversity and the ’European West’: Public policies in European case law: between security, non-discrimination, and public information, Louis-Léon Christians; The French system against sectarian deviations, Hervé Machi; The French ’war on cults’ revisited: three remarks on an on-going controversy, Etienne Ollion; Switzerland and religious minorities: legal political, and educational responses, Brigitte Knobel. Part IV Moving Eastward - Emerging Democracies and the Communist Legacy: Recognition, registration, and autonomy of religious groups: European approaches and their human rights implications, Jeroen Temperman; The state, new religious movements, and legislation on religion: a case study of three Baltic states, Ringo Ringvee; With fear and favour: minority religions and the post-Soviet Russian state, Marat Shterin; China’s responses to minority religions, Ping Xiong. Part V Minority Religions in Non-European Democracies: Canadian and South African Models: Expanding the scope of regulation: some reflections on religious minorities in Canada, Lori G. Beaman; The constitutional protection of religious practices in Canada, Richard Moon; Religious minorities’ right to s
About the author
David M. Kirkham is Senior Fellow for Comparative Law and International Policy, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University Law School.
Summary
This book explores state responses to minority religions in four parts. The volume provides a legal and normative overview of the variety of responses available to states and looks at Islamic majority countries. It also focuses on Western Europe, paying particular attention to the rise in the twentieth century of the 'sect' and exploration of the European Court of Human Rights.
