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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Fox
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108715676
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71567-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: 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