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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... action.” This does not mean that all federal governmental entities in the U.S. were positively oriented towards NRMs ... actions that limited NRM activities by disallowing exemptions for communal NRMs similar to those usually granted ...
... actions became paramount methods of exerting control over alternative religious. movements.” Early efforts to apply brainwashing based ideas in a legal setting were in “conservatorship” hearings discussed above which were designed to ...
... actions (Mickler, 1994; Kurokawa, 1999; Richardson & Edelman, this volume). The more usual form of self-help brainwashed-based civil action against an NRM and its leaders involved suits filed by a former members, asking for money ...
... actions of identifiable individuals toward a given child, information that is difficult to discern in groups living an isolated life far from the eyes of teachers, social workers, and others. Also, defining what constituted child abuse ...
... actions have taken place in France, where a parliamentary study was done in 1994 that included a list of 172 unacceptable groups (Introvigne & Melton, 1996). Another study of finances of groups on this list has been completed, and some ...
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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 |