Religious freedom in the world / edited by Paul A. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, Paul A., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion.

Persecution.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xvi, 499 pages ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ; [Washington, DC] : Published in cooperation with Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, [2008]

Summary:

Religious persecution affects all religious groups. There is no group in the world that does not suffer to some degree because of its beliefs. Religious Freedom in the World profiles 101 countries and territories, which between them contain more than 95 percent of the world's population, and uses a clearly comprehensible numeric scale to rank the level of religious freedom found in each. It also provides separately derived measures of government regulation of religion, government favoritism of religion, and social regulation of religion. The countries have been selected so that the survey represents each continent, major religion, and geographic area; covers countries with large populations; describes particularly egregious violators of religious freedom; and adequately illustrates variations within regions.

Contents:

The range of religious freedom / Paul A. Marshall

Secular and religious, church and state / Paul A. Marshall

Religious freedom and national security / Thomas F. Farr

Christians of the Middle East : a story of accelerating erosion / Habib C. Malik

European trends / Willy Fautré

Trends in the Balkans and southeastern Europe / Felix Corley

The former Soviet Union / Felix Corley

God's economy : religious freedom and socioeconomic well-being / Brian J. Grim

Free to choose : economics and religion / Theodore Malloch.

Notes:

Originally published: Nashville, Tenn. : Broadman & Holman Publishers, c2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780742562127

0742562123

9780742562134

0742562131

OCLC:

157023219