Conflicts over religious symbols in the public sphere, gay marriage, abortion or gender
equality have shown their disruptive potential across many societies in the world. They have …

Western societies have experienced a broadening of inclusive membership, whether we
consider legal, interpersonal, or cultural membership. Concurrently, we have witnessed …

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and
practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving …

Through what political, economic, cultural and social processes is difference transformed
into inequality? Specifically, how are linguistic and religious pluralism implicated in the …

This contribution explores how religious diversity is governed at the urban level and seeks to
explain patterns of regulatory practice. It does so by developing the notion of the urban …

This article brings to a conclusion the series of three special sections published in 2015 and
2016 by Religion, State and Society on 'Religion and local politics in southern Europe'. We …

In this article, I explore how nations without states, or 'stateless nations' respond to new
forms of religious diversity. Drawing on the cases of Quebec and Catalonia, I do so by …

Recent years have seen growing interest in the judicialization of religious freedom (JRF). In
this article, I identify two distinct meanings of JRF, which are often conflated but which need …

This essay aims to review mainstream literature and research perspectives on the sociology
of human rights with the further focus on relationship between human rights and religion. We …

Abstract The Pesantren Law further emphasizes the existence of pesantren who are
responsible for spreading the ideology of patriotism. Pancasila has established a mutual …