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Minority Religions, the Law, and the Courts

Minority Religions, the Law, and the Courts

Paperback

Series: Elements in New Religious Movements

Religion General

ISBN10: 1009617265
ISBN13: 9781009617260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 11 2025
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This Element examines the complex intersections between minority religions, legal protections and restrictions, and the role of courts in securing, or inhibiting, religious freedom. It considers the legal status of minority religions in selected countries from a comparative perspective, using sociology of law theories to explain how legal systems treat such religious groups. Relevant actions of the European Court of Human Rights are examined as is how minority religions are dealt with in selected societies where authoritarian or theocratic systems of governance prevail. The Element then examines how interactions with law and the courts have led to changes, or 'deformations, ' in selected well-known and controversial new and other minority religions. The Element concludes by observing how courts in Europe and North America have used cases involving minority faiths to promote their own agendas and authority, as well as accomplish other important considerations, including religious freedom.

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