The Sociology of Religious Freedom: A Structural and Socio-Legal Analysis
This paper offers a structural and socio-legal analysis that examines historical, sociological, and cultural factors that have given rise to and promoted the idea of religious freedom in modern human societies. The effort involves an integration of research from the sociology of new and minority rel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-294 |
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| Summary: | This paper offers a structural and socio-legal analysis that examines historical, sociological, and cultural factors that have given rise to and promoted the idea of religious freedom in modern human societies. The effort involves an integration of research from the sociology of new and minority religions with theoretical ideas from the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Law. The relationship of pluralism to religious freedom is examined, as is how the pervasiveness, centralization, autonomy, type (adversarial vs. inquisitorial), and discretion of legal and judicial systems impact religious freedom. The application of key concepts from the work of Donald Black, including status, intimacy, and third party partisanship seem especially useful, and well as issues related to the social production of evidence used in legal cases involving newer and controversial religious groups |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/67.3.271 |