This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion
and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject's most …

This work fills a significant gap in the current literature by providing a concise introduction to
religious institutions and an insightful analysis of their role in world affairs. Focusing on …

Promises of religious freedoms have become the standard in national constitutions. Yet,
despite these assurances, religious freedoms are routinely denied. Combining new data …

Religious freedom is widely recognized today as a basic human right, guaranteed by nearly
all national constitutions. Exporting Freedom charts the rise of religious freedom as an ideal …

Should international law be concerned with offence to religions and their followers? Even
before the 2005 publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Muslim States have …

Americans recently marked and celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.1 During the past half-century, a wide variety of antidiscrimination laws …

This Article examines the current status and future of the" defamation of religions"
Resolutions adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Although, since 2011, no …

This study uses the Religion and State round 2 (RAS2) dataset to examine the presence of
religious freedom in 177 countries. There are many different conceptions of the meaning of …

Religious freedom has been a key facet of its various Constitutions since the day the
Philippines became Asia's first democratic republic in 1899. The immediate religious context …

Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to religious liberty. In Employment
Division v. Smith, 2 the Court effectively overturned a quarter century of constitutional …