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Two Models of Political Secularism and Religious Freedom in Italy and Croatia: Findings from a Survey among Youth

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Interest in political secularism is growing, due to its proven relevant role in affecting people’s political behaviours and attitudes toward human rights.
Asia Leofreddi
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Religious Rivalries, Hegemony of Liberalism, and Institutionalization of Secularism: The Case Study of the United States (1776-1980) [PDF]

open access: yesدولت‌پژوهی, 2021
The US model of secularism policies include disestablishment of religion and guaranteeing religious freedom through adding related articles in the constitution and the first amendment, the lack of religious education in public schools, the freedom of ...
Hamid Ahmadi, Borhan Salimi
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Human flourishing and religious liberty: Evidence from over 150 countries.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
This paper studies the spatial and time series patterns of religious liberty across countries and estimates its effect on measures of human flourishing. First, while there are significant cross-country differences in religious liberty, it has declined in
Christos Andreas Makridis
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Independent and Overlapping: Institutional Religious Freedom and Religious Providers of Social Services

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Roughly two decades ago, scholarly interest in the limits of government involvement in religious institutions exploded. Scholars explored distinctions between the spiritual and temporal dimensions of human activity and identified numerous individual, social, spiritual and civic goods associated with independent religious groups. From these foundations,
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The exercise of religious freedom in educational institutions in the light of ecthr jurisprudence [PDF]

open access: yesWroclaw Review of Law, Administration & Economics, 2012
The implementation of the freedom of religion or belief in educational environment, in particular the use of religious symbols and obligatory religious education, has been, and continues to be, a matter of controversy and discussion in a number of countries.
Valutytė Regina, Gailiūtė Dovilė
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Are International Human Rights Organizations Effective in Protecting Religious Freedom?

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper examines whether international human rights organizations (HROs) influence the protection of religious freedom, and whether the effect is different on the protection of religious rights for institutions versus individuals.
Lihui Zhang
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Non-governmental religious schools in Europe: institutional opportunities, associational freedoms, and contemporary challenges [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Education, 2014
The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom of education, including opportunities to create and operate faith-based schools. But as European societies become religiously more diverse and ‘less religious’ at the same time, the role of religious schools increasingly is being contested.
Maussen, M., Bader, V.
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The Freedom of Religious Institutions and Human Flourishing in India: A Present and Future Research Agenda [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
In this paper, I explore how India’s complex regime of control and management of religious institutions and communities—ironically, particularly Hindu institutions—influences the capacity of these institutions to promote various dimensions of human flourishing and socio-economic uplift among the most marginalized.
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What Do Religious Corporations Owe for Burdening Individual Civil Rights

open access: yesChanging Societies & Personalities, 2019
In the name of religious liberty, recent legislative initiatives by Christian nationalists seek broad legal exemptions from general law. This reflects an abiding antipathy to and a fear of the power of the state, the ultimate aim of which may be ...
Ivan Strenski
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Suffering in world religions within paradigm of modern information [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2021
Any type of discourse, along with its characteristic concepts, operates with its own values. The basis of religious discourse form universal values providing moral guidelines that represent a standard for people of different cultures and eras, which are ...
Bobyreva Ekaterina   +3 more
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