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Invisible exodus: toward a methodology for estimating religious displacement in Nigeria [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
The purview of the current study is to estimate the religious affiliation of Nigerian displaced persons, specifically to assess the number of internally displaced Christians.
Dennis P. Petri, Dennis P. Petri, John T. Bainbridge   +2 more
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Misconceptions of Religious Freedom: Toward an Empirical Study of Religious Freedom Awareness

Religions, 2023
This article offers an overview of the most common misconceptions about religious freedom, with reference to the 2017 UN Report by Mr. Shaheed and the perspectives of other human rights scholars and experts.
Olga Breskaya, Giuseppe Giordan
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Three Discourses of Religious Freedom: How and Why Political Talk about Religious Freedom in Australia has Changed

Religions, 2023
Since 2015, religious freedom has become a heated and divisive political and public policy issue in Australia. While rarely defined or interrogated, ‘religious freedom’ does not exist as a value-neutral principle with a single meaning.
Elenie Poulos
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Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an “Essential Service” to the Common Good

Religions, 2021
Should the freedom of churches and other religious institutions come down to little more than a grudging recognition that “what happens in the church, stays in the church”?
Timothy Samuel Shah
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Trump and the Politics of International Religious Freedom

Religions, 2020
The article examines the USA’s international religious freedom policy during the presidency of Donald Trump. It argues that the Trump administration consistently prioritised America’s international religious freedom (IRF) policy according to Judeo ...
Jeffrey Haynes
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Religious Freedom in Pakistan: A Case Study of Religious Minorities

Religions, 2021
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a multi-racial and multi-religious nation, with Muslims being in the majority. Its 1973 Constitution guarantees religious freedom to all religious minorities, including Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs.
Musferah Mehfooz
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Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom in Indonesia

Religions, 2021
By emphasizing that individual religious freedom depends for its realization on complex social embeddings, the concept of institutional religious freedom provides an important corrective to conventional, individualistic approaches to religious freedom ...
Robert W Hefner
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Constructing the Problem of Religious Freedom: An Analysis of Australian Government Inquiries into Religious Freedom

Religions, 2019
Australia is the only western democracy without a comprehensive human rights instrument and has only limited protection for religious freedom in its constitution.
Elenie Poulos
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Views on Religious Freedom among Young People in Belarus and Norway: Similarities and Contrasts

Religions, 2019
The study of religious freedom has not received sufficient empirical attention from sociologists of religion, despite significant theoretical discussion of the governance of religious freedom.
Olga Breskaya, Pal Ketil Botvar
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Religious Freedom and Freedom from Religious Discrimination: Implications for the Religious Discrimination Bill [PDF]

Australian Journal of Law & Religion, 2023
This article argues that religious freedom and freedom from religious discrimination are distinct but conceptually linked; in particular, freedom from religious discrimination is a sub-category of religious freedom.
Ysabel Andrea Abordo, Alex Deagon
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