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A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US

Government and Opposition, 2021
Right-wing populists across Western democracies have markedly increased references to Christianity in recent years. While there is much debate about how and why they have done so, less attention has been paid to how Christian communities react to this ...
T. Cremer
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The Ahmadiyya, Blasphemy and Religious Freedom: The Institutional Discourse Analysis of Religious Discrimination in Indonesia

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2021
The article investigates the development of discourses related to freedom of religion and discrimination against religious minority in current Indonesia by identifying the discourse constructions of Ahmadiyya in various texts and talks produced and ...
A. Irawan, Zifirdaus Adnan
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Religious Insanity in America: The Official Nineteenth-Century Theory

Sociological Analysis, 1984
the opportunity for exploring the alleged role of religion in producing insanity. Enshrined in publications of the U.S. government and in the chief psychiatric texts as part of the official theory of madness, the idea of religious insanity may have served a number of functions for the new profession of psychiatry, as well as offering afflicted families
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The Colonial–Religious Institutional Contract: Muslim Women Activists in Israel

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 2020
:This study examines the growth of a progressive religious Muslim activism among Palestinian women in Israel and the challenges it poses to the religious patriarchy and colonial power structures.
Nahed Ashqar-Sharary   +1 more
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The grooming of children for sexual abuse in religious settings: Unique characteristics and select case studies

Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2019
This article focuses on the extent to which interactions between religious communities and the State can leave children vulnerable to physical abuse. In recent history, there have been numerous challenges to State control and authority from both new and ...
S. Raine, S. Kent
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State Officials’ Entanglement with Vigilante Groups in Violence against Ahmadiyah and Shi’a Communities in Indonesia

The State and Religious Violence in Indonesia, 2019
Communal violence against the minority communities of Ahmadiyah and Shi’a was on the rise during the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004–14). This article discusses state responses to this violence. Previous studies commonly attributed
A’an Suryana
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Losing ground: Decline of Angkor's middle-level officials

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2019
We argue in this article that the social and economic conditions in the Angkorian society of the tenth century or earlier contributed to the decline in status of some middle-level officials, as is evident from the mid-eleventh century.
Eileen Lustig, T. Lustig
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Religious Exercise in Prison - A Guide for Prison Officials

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) prohibits any prison receiving federal funds from substantially burdening the religious exercise of its prisoners unless the burden survives strict scrutiny. This paper will discuss specific accommodations that a prisoner might request and propose solutions that will preserve the inmate ...
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TURKS IN GERMANY, RELIGIOUS RECOGNITION, AND OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF ALEVIS AS A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

2023
This study focuses on Turkish immigrants living in Germany for over 60 years and theirincorporation into the local religious system. Germany’s history of religious conflicts hascontributed to the evaluation of a society where confessions coexist. This historical situation resulted in the developing of a religious recognition system that tried to ...
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Contract governance of religious diversity in a German city-state and its ambivalences

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities, 2019
This contribution discusses whether specific German policy instruments developed to govern relations between the state and religious communities are a decisive step towards legal equality or of limited impact when extended to non-Christian religious ...
A. Körs
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