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Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
By emphasizing that individual religious freedom depends for its realization on complex social embeddings, the concept of institutional religious freedom provides an important corrective to conventional, individualistic approaches to religious freedom ...
Robert W. Hefner
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Institutional Religious Freedom: An Overview and Defense [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The idea of institutional religious freedom has become increasingly controversial, especially in the United States, and pressure for such freedom has been growing. The notion that institutions, including commercial ones, can have religious freedom rights
Paul Marshall
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Ensuring Individual Rights through Institutional Freedoms: The Role of Religious Institutions in Securing Religious Rights [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Understanding the restrictions placed on religious institutions and associations, or the freedoms that they are denied, is essential for understanding the limits placed on individual religious freedoms and human rights more generally. This study uses the
Jonathan Fox, Roger Finke
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Kuyper’s sphere sovereignty and institutional religious freedom in Indonesia

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2023
Although the Indonesian Constitution guarantees religious freedom in Indonesia, the implementation of that freedom is not without ambiguity. As the state defines what constitutes religion and categorises official and nonofficial religions, religious ...
David Kristanto, Tony Salurante
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Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an “Essential Service” to the Common Good [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Should the freedom of churches and other religious institutions come down to little more than a grudging recognition that “what happens in the church, stays in the church”?
Timothy Samuel Shah
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Political and Institutional Approaches to Advancing International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Foreign Policy in 1998–2020

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2022
The article traces the institutional and political evolution of the US implementing its concept of international religious freedom from 1998 to 2020.
V. A. Shchipkov
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Litigating the Limits of Religion: Minority and Majority Concerns about Institutional Religious Liberty in India

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Western religious liberty advocates tend to focus on restrictions placed on minority religious communities, particularly when advocating abroad, that is, outside of the country in which they reside.
Chad M. Bauman
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India’s Other Religious Freedom Problems

open access: yesReligions, 2021
There is no doubt that India is far from perfect when it comes to religious freedom. Indeed, India’s religious freedom problems have become an increasing focus of scholarly and policy attention.
Timothy S. Shah
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The Impact of the Church–State Model for an Effective Guarantee of Religious Freedom: A Study of the Peruvian Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesLaws, 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments established important restrictions on religious freedom. Due to a restrictive interpretation of the right to religious freedom, religion was placed in the category of “non-essential activity” and was ...
Susana Mosquera
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The Puzzle of Italian Religious Freedoms: Local Experiments and Complex Interactions

open access: yesReligions, 2022
“Religious freedom” has many different meanings, and its social perceptions vary depending on different factors, including different understandings of the role of religion in society.
Alberta Giorgi   +2 more
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