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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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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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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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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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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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From the Person to the Institution: Religious Freedom and Institutions in Democratic States

open access: yesTeologia i Człowiek, 2021
Based on the assumption that the fundamental rights of people in most democratic states are governed by the personalist principle and that, of course, the religious freedom of the individual is an indisputable fundamental right, this paper reflects on the implications of these premises in the institutional field.
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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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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,
openaire   +1 more source

Religious Institutionalism in a Canadian Context

open access: yesOsgoode Hall Law Journal, 2016
Does freedom of religion protect religious institutions or does it only protect the individual religious conscience? Canadian jurisprudence after the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms takes a decidedly individualist turn ...
Victor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli   +1 more
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