Are International Human Rights Organizations Effective in Protecting Religious Freedom?
Religions, 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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The Puzzle of Italian Religious Freedoms: Local Experiments and Complex Interactions
Religions, 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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Religions, 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]
دولتپژوهی, 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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State religion and freedom : a comparative analysis [PDF]
, 2013 State religions form one of the main features of the international political landscape, but scholarly research into their dynamics and effects remains limited.
Casanova, Steven Kettell
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Human flourishing and religious liberty: Evidence from over 150 countries.
PLoS 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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SSRN 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]
Wroclaw 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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Non-governmental religious schools in Europe: institutional opportunities, associational freedoms, and contemporary challenges [PDF]
Comparative 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]
Religions, 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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