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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... involved members of the Native American Church who had used peyote, provoked a major reaction in the U.S., and led to passage in 1993 of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). This Act forced governmental entities to demonstrate ...
... involved suits filed by a former members, asking for money damages for actions the former member claims were illegal. Usually such cases were based on the claim that the person now suing was brainwashed into joining or under mind ...
... involved directly in the regulation of religious groups, sometimes assisted by private individuals or “anti-cult” groups which themselves may be receiving official government support and funding. SOCIAL CONTROL IN OTHER COUNTRIES As ...
... involved in research on the production, diffusion, and use of psychiatric concepts and psychological syndromes and profiles within Western countries.” Some of this work has discussed use of psychological and psychiatric concepts and ...
... involved in legal actions during this period, they usually lost, a situation that lasted for several years in the U.S. How this situation changed and developed into one where NRMs were able to themselves make use of the legal system to ...
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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 |