Regulating religion : case studies from around the globe / edited by James T. Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, James T., 1941-

Series:

Critical issues in social justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and state--Case studies.

Religion and state.

Religion and law--Case studies.

Religion and law.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 578 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2004]

Summary:

Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0306478862

0306478870

OCLC:

52773633