Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me - Why Governments Discriminate Against Religious Minorities

This book examines diverse causes of government-based religious discrimination, including secular ideologies, religious monopolies, wealth, regime, and more, against 771 minorities in 183 countries over a twenty-five year period.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Government-based religious discrimination; 3. Societal discrimination; 4. Support, regulation and religious regime as causes of GRD in the Muslim world; 5. Non-orthodox Christian-majority democracies in the West and Europe; 6. Orthodox, Buddhist and communist states; 7. The rest, 1: democracies; 8. The rest, 2: non-democracies; 9. Conclusions.

About the author

Jonathan Fox is the Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and director of the Religion and State Project. He writes about government religion policy, religious freedom, and religious conflict.

Summary

This book examines diverse causes of government-based religious discrimination, including secular ideologies, religious monopolies, wealth, regime, and more, against 771 minorities in 183 countries over a twenty-five year period.

Additional text

'Relying on more recent and even more extensive data than his previous studies, Fox convincingly challenges many dearly held assumptions. Liberal democracies are not the most religiously tolerant, and secular and religious ideologies alike are a source of increased government regulation of religion.' Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Fox, Jonathan (Bar-Ilan University Fox, Jonathan (Universiteit Leiden) Fox
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108488914
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48891-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Comparative Politics, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict