Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the GlobeJames T. Richardson Springer Science & Business Media, 6. dec. 2012 - 578 strani 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. |
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... Christian groups have exerted enormous influence in recent decades, forcing attention to the political agendas of such movements. The Catholic Church has played a major role in the overthrow of communism only to see its own status ...
... Christian churches. The era of large-scale anti-clericalism has given way to the State's informal recognition that ... Christian churches had somehow failed to offer to ordinary Christians what they were looking for. Nowadays, by ...
... Christ and Latter-day Saints, Christian Science, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Catholics, who constitute at least two-thirds of the French population, were warned against the dangers of deserting the Security offered by their Church and of ...
... State officials and politicians as the only good and acceptable form of religion. If the mainline Christian and Jewish organizations can adapt to pluralism, by demanding or expecting less and less 32 James A. Beckford.
... Christian churches and Jewish institutions perform tasks that do not impinge on areas of life controlled by the State in the name of republican values that stress respect for the law, individual rights and national solidarity in ...
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4 Is There a Unique French Policy of Cults? | 53 |
5 Holy Mountains and AntiCult Ecology | 73 |
6 The German Enquete Commission on Sects | 84 |
7 Germanys Islamic Minority | 103 |
8 Belgiums AntiSect Policy | 113 |
19 Freedom of Religion and Minority Religions in Hungary | 279 |
20 Law and Religion in the Czech Republic | 294 |
21 Religion and Society in Tensionin Croatia | 299 |
22 Religion and Law in Uzbekistan | 319 |
IV Australia India and the Far East | 331 |
23 Social Justice Issues in the Management of Religious Diversity in Australia | 333 |
24 The Rehabilitation and Regulation of Religion in Singapore | 343 |
25 Cult Controversies and Legal Developments Concerning New Religions in Japan and China | 359 |
9 Pseudoscience versus Minority Religions | 126 |
10 Brainwashing Theories in European Parliamentary and AdministrativeReports on Cults and Sects | 151 |
11 The Twelve Tribes Messianic Communities the AntiCult Movement and Governmental Response | 179 |
II More Tolerant European Countries | 201 |
12 New Religions in the Republic of Italy | 203 |
13 Foredoomed to Failure | 213 |
14 Regulating New Religions in Denmark | 220 |
15 Social Justice and Minority Religions in Prison | 237 |
III Former Communist Countries andthe Treatment of Minority Religions | 243 |
16 Legal Regulation of Religionsin Russia | 246 |
17 New Religions Movements and the State in Poland | 259 |
18 AntiCult Movements and Governmental Reports onSects and Cults | 266 |
26 Religion Law and Minorities in India | 381 |
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North and South America | 415 |
27 Public Management of Religious Diversity in Canada | 418 |
28 The Legal Situation of Religious Minorities in Mexico | 441 |
29 Cult Controversies and Government Control of New Religious Movements in Argentina 19852002 | 453 |
30 State and Federal Cooperation in Regulating New Religions | 476 |
31 Mundane Materialism | 491 |
32 Medicalization and Regulation of Deviant Religions | 506 |
33 Religious Regulation and the Courts | 535 |
About the Editor | 555 |
Index | 557 |