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2016
Abstract This chapter discusses various human rights violations that arise in the context of constructing, owning, accessing, using, protecting, and preserving places of worship or other religious sites. When members of religious communities wish to construct and own places of worship they often face restrictions that are imposed by the ...
Heiner Bielefeldt +2 more
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Abstract This chapter discusses various human rights violations that arise in the context of constructing, owning, accessing, using, protecting, and preserving places of worship or other religious sites. When members of religious communities wish to construct and own places of worship they often face restrictions that are imposed by the ...
Heiner Bielefeldt +2 more
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Journal of Law, Religion and State, 2014
The present paper analyzes the substance of the right to establish and maintain places of worship in order to reveal the elements that make up its conceptual core. First, the process of international standard-setting in human rights is explained, in particular the important contribution of the un
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The present paper analyzes the substance of the right to establish and maintain places of worship in order to reveal the elements that make up its conceptual core. First, the process of international standard-setting in human rights is explained, in particular the important contribution of the un
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Places of Worship and Neighborhood Stability
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2006ABSTRACT: Despite ongoing interest in religious group involvement in community development, only limited research has considered whether the mere existence of a place of worship can be linked to neighborhood well-being. This exploratory study uses a cross-sectional design to examine the relationships between the presence of churches in high-poverty ...
Nancy T. Kinney, William E. Winter
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Crimes occurring at places of worship
International Review of Victimology, 2015Although the subject has received very little systematic research, media reports of crimes occurring on the property of places of worship appear regularly. While the national media often focus on violent incidents involving religious bias, local media often report on the more common issues that many congregations face, such as vandalism and theft ...
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Places of Worship: Listing Selection Guide
2017This selection guide provides first a summary historical overview of the various Christian churches down to the end of the nineteenth century - Anglican (Church of England), Catholic and Nonconformist (Dissenting) - and collectively at churches and chapels of the twentieth century.
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“More Than a Place of Worship”
2017This chapter examines food festivals at the Wat Thai of Los Angeles, the first and largest Thai Buddhist temple in the nation, which was established in 1979, as a window on the relationship between food, race, and place in the suburbs during the 1980s. It charts Thai American suburbanization in the East San Fernando Valley near Wat Thai and traces the ...
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