Reactions to the law by minority religions / edited by Eileen Barker and James T. Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Eileen, 1938- editor.

Richardson, James T., 1941- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge Inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements

Routledge inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Religious minorities.

Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe.

Conflict of laws.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Eileen Barker, FBA, FAcSS, OBE,is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. She has spent the past five decades studying minority religions and social reactions to them. In 1988 she founded Inform in order to help enquirers with information that is as reliable, balanced, contextualised and up-to-date as possible. She has over 400 scholarly publications and is series editor of the Routledge Inform book series. James T. Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, USA. He is a sociologist with legal training and has been researching new religious movements for five decades. He is the author of over a dozen books and over 300 articles in journals and chapters in edited collections. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in the Netherlands and a Rockefeller Scholar at the Bellagio Center in Italy as well as being an invited guest of universities in Europe, Australia and China.

Contents:

Fight, flight or freeze? Reactions to the law by minority religions / Eileen Barker

Stand up for your rights : (minority) religions' reactions to law in Estonia / Ringo Ringvee

Jehovah's Witnesses and the law : "Caesar's things to Caesar, but God's things to God" / Tony Brace

Scientology behind the scenes : the law changer / Eric Roux

No stranger to litigation : court cases involving the unification church/Family Federation in the United States / Michael L. Mickler

Legal challenges posed to the unification church in Europe : perspectives from a unificationist advocate for religious freedom / Peter Zoehrer

The "Doukhobor problem" in Canada : how a Russian mystical sect responded to law enforcement in British Columbia, 1903 to 2013 / Susan Palmer and Shane Dussault

Making sense of the institutional demarcation : Tenrikyō's response to legal environments in France / Masato Kato

Strategies in context : the essenes in France and Canada / Marie-Eve Melanson and Jennifer Guyver

Reactions to legal challenges by Aum Shinrikyō and its successor organisations / Rin Ushiyama

Religious persecution and refugees : legal and communication strategies of The Church of Almighty God in asylum cases / Massimo Introvigne And Rosita Šorytė

Minority religion reactions to the European Court of Human Rights / Effie Fokas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Reactions to the law by minority religions

ISBN:

9781003053590

1003053599

9781000333244

1000333248

9781000333305

1000333302

9781000333367

1000333361

Publisher Number:

40030309614

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.