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The World's Religions in Figures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

The World's Religions in Figures

Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography – detailing what we know about religious adherents around the world, and how we know it Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnostics and atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past 100 years and projecting estimates for the year 2050 Outlines the issues and challenges related to definitions, taxonomies, sources, analyses, a...

The Price of Freedom Denied
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Price of Freedom Denied

The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded data for nearly 200 countries and case studies of six countries, the book offers a global profile of religious freedom and religious persecution. Grim and Finke report that persecution is evident in all regions and is standard fare for many. They also find that religious freedoms are routinely denied and that government and the society at large serve to restrict these freedoms. They conclude that the price of freedom denied is high indeed.

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-03
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world (past, present, and future) in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography.

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2017
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2017

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world (past, present, and future) in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography.

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2014
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2014

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-24
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook.

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2016

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world (past, present, and future) in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography.

The Future of Religious Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Future of Religious Freedom

Based on a symposium held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-29
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The 2015 issue highlights both global and local realities in religious adherence, from the demographics of the world's atheists to the emigration of Christians from the Middle East. Other case studies include inter-religious marriage patterns in Austria, Muslim immigration to Australia, and methodological challenges in counting Hasidic Jews.

Politics of Religious Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Politics of Religious Freedom

  • Categories: Law

Religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as a condition for peace. Faced with reports of a rise in religious violence and a host of other social ills, public, and private actors have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the assumptions underlying this response? The contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption that religious freedom is a singular achievement and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Delineating the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and political contexts, the contributions make clear that the reasons for violence and discrimination are more complex than is widely acknowledged. The promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities often cited as falling short. -- from back cover.

The Global Public Square
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

The Global Public Square

Recognizing that tyranny takes on secular as well as traditional guises, Os Guinness seeks a return to the first principles of religious and political freedom. Hearkening back to the "soul liberty" of English Puritan Roger Williams, Guinness argues that a society's greatest bulwark against abuse lies in its people's freedom of conscience.