Civil & Human Rights, Civil Rights Law, Politics & Government - General & Miscellaneous, Church & State, Constitutional Law
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Overview
Religious persecution affects all religious groups. There is no group in the world that does not suffer to some degree because of its beliefs. Religious Freedom in the World profiles 101 countries and territories, which between them contain more than 95 percent of the world's population, and uses a clearly comprehensible numeric scale to rank the level of religious freedom found in each. It also provides separately derived measures of government regulation of religion, government favoritism of religion, and social regulation of religion. The countries have been selected so that the survey represents each continent, major religion, and geographic area; covers countries with large populations; describes particularly egregious violators of religious freedom; and adequately illustrates variations within regions.Synopsis
This survey describes and rates countries using criteria based on international law; it parallels the surveys produced for Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press. It profiles countries in short narrative sketches, comparatively ranks them according to criteria of religious freedom for all religious groups, and features essays by experts explaining current relevant issues and trends.
Book Details
Published
December 1, 2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Pages
516
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780742562127