Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987-2012 [PDF]
Twenty percent of American adults claimed no religious preference in 2012, compared to 7 percent twenty-five years earlier. Previous research identified a political backlash against the religious right and generational change as major factors in ...
Michael Hout, Claude S. Fischer
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In the Czech Republic, the autonomy of churches is constitutionally guaranteed in a rather broad manner. The constitutional and legal basis for Church autonomy lies in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which is part of the Czech ...
Marián Čačík
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Psychological aspects of religious morality in middle and late adulthood
As a result of the study, the structure of religious morality including the following categories was distinguished: basis of moral functioning, moral attitude toward conflict situations, moral attitude toward experienced dissonances, and reference to ...
Małgorzata Tatala
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Correlation between secular state and religious orientation: Internal and external motives of madrasa students [PDF]
The purpose of the study was to analyse the mechanisms of regulation of Islamic education in different countries and their influence on the religious orientation of students at Islamic schools (madrasas).
Rakhymzhan Rashimbetov +3 more
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Western Churches and Politics: Frontiers of Ideologic Divergence [PDF]
The article deals with conflict lines in the interaction of religious institutions and political actors in Europe. Church policy in the West is seen as a practical implementation of the neo-secular approach, which implies a reduction in the role of ...
Daniil A. Parenkov +1 more
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination and Autonomy of Religious Groups in the Inter-American Case Law
Religious freedom encompasses the right of religious groups to define the tenets of their faith andto organise themselves according to these tenets, without arbitrary State interference. However, the limitsof religious groups’ autonomy are controversial,
Fernando Arlettaz
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SHARI’AH BYLAWS IN INDONESIA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
This article examines the implementation of shari’ah bylaws as a response to the regional autonomy law passed in 1999 and their implications for religious minorities.
Ahmad Fuad Fanani
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The Possibility of Applying Religious Multiculturalism Policy in Local Government in Indonesia
This study investigates local government’s opportunities for implementing religious multiculturalism policies, which refer to the regional autonomy system.
Khoirun Nisa
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Autonomy, Religious Values, and Refusal of Lifesaving Medical Treatment
The principal question of this paper is: Why are religious values special in refusal of lifesaving medical treatment? This question is approached through a critical examination of a common kind of refusal of treatment case, one involving a rational ...
Wreen, Michael J.
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The Argument for a Narrow Conception of ‘Religious Autonomy’ [PDF]
Based on two recent cases at ECHR (Fernández and Syndicatul) and an american supreme court case (Hosana-Tabor) this article contributes to a special issue of OJLR on Ministerial exemption. The article is in favor of collective freedom of religion but warns against an extensive interpretation of religious autonomy and on re-introducing religious law as ...
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