Encyclopedia of religious freedom
Catharine Cookson (Editor)
Religious freedom, religious rights, and church-state relations are intertwined issues. In fact, the quest for freedom by religious groups is intrinsic to human history and still resonates in today's world – be it the struggle of Falun Gong practitioners in China, court cases against the Church of Scientology in Germany, or the debate over the pledge of Allegiance in the United States.
XIV, 555 str. : ilustr. ; 29 cm.
9780415941815, 0415941814
1016089886
Africa; Augustine on Religious Coercion; Baha'i; Balkans, East Europe, and Russia; Baptist Dissenters in Virginia; Brainwashing; British Empire; Buddhism; Byzantine Empire; Canada, Australia, New Zealand; Cathars; Chaplains: Military and Legislative; Children and Freedom of Religion in the U.S.; China, Communist; China, Imperial; Christian Science; Church and State in Modern Europe; Civil Religion; Code Noir; Confederate Constitution and Religion; Confucianism; Conscientious Objection and Pacifism; Constitution, Founding Era of the; Convivencia; Coptic Christians; Creationism; CSCE Vienna Document; Daoism; Drugs in Religious Worship; England, Early Modern; England, Victorian; English Civil War; English Test Oaths and Toleration Acts; Establishment, Equal Treatment; Establishment, Separation of Church and State; European Convention on Human Rights; Falun Gong; Family, The; Fourteenth Amendment; Free Exercise Clause; Free Speech Clause; Freedom of Conscience; French Colonies in North America; French Revolution; Fundamentalistic Religion and Politics; Germany and Prussia; Government Funding of Religious Organizations; Great Awakenings and the Antebellum Period; Heresy; Hinduism; Human Rights; Immigration; Individualist Religions; Inquisition; Islam; Islamic Empire, Medieval; Israel; Jainism; Japan; Jehovah's Witnesses: Global; Jehovah's Witnesses: United States; Jews in Europe; Jews in the United States; Jihad; Judaism; Law Disorders and Religious Freedom; Law Enforcement and Religious Group; Leiden; Letter on Toleration; Maryland: Colonial to Early Republic; Middle East; Millennialist Groups; Mormons; Native American Church; Natural Law; New England: Colonial to Early Republic; New Religious Movements; New York: Colonial to Early Republic; Nineteenth-Century U.S. Utopian Communities; Orthodox Christianity; Outsiderhood and American Protestantism; Pakistan; Peace Churches; Pennsylvania: Colonial to Early Republic; Pentecostalism; Pledge of Allegiance; Pluralism and Religious Identity in Lawmaking; Political Attitudes and Religiosity; Preservation of Faith Commitments; Prisons; Radical Religious Groups: African-American; Radical Religious Groups: White; Rastifari and Religious Freedom; Reformation, Early Modern Europe; Religion and Politics; Religion and Protest; Religion and Public Education; Religion in the Courtroom; Religious Displays on Public Property; Religious Nationalism; Religious Terrorist Groups; Religious Test Oaths; Religious Tolerance; Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics, Colonial to Nineteenth Century; Roman Empire; Sabbatarians; Sacred Space and Conflict; School Prayer and Discrimination; Scientology; Secularism and Modernity; Shintoism; Sikhism; Slavery; South Africa; South America; South, U.S.: Colonial to Early Republic; Spanish Colonies in North America; Spanish Empire; Spiritual Healing; State Churches; Tibet; Turkey; U.N. Declaration on Discrimination; Unification Church; United Kingdom; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; U