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An Institutional Perspective on Religious Freedom and Economic Growth
Politics and Religion, 2017 AbstractThe increase in religion-related conflicts around the world emphasizes the urgent need for a better understanding of the role of religion and religious freedom on socio-economic development, both theoretically and empirically. While studies on the role of religion on economic development have existed as early as Weber (1905), there is a dearth ...
Alon, Ilan, Li, Shoamin, Wu, Jun
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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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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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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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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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What Do Religious Corporations Owe for Burdening Individual Civil Rights
Changing 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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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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A religious education otherwise: an examination and proposed interruption of current British practice [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the recent shift towards the dominance of the study of philosophy of religion, ethics and critical thinking within religious education in Britain.
ANNA STRHAN, Strhan, Anna
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