Discrimination Against Religious Minorities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5708010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elina Schleutker (0000-0003-3335-2574, Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 282-307 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/csy031 |
| OpenAlex | W2801159414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Minority religions have often suffered from discrimination and persecution. Such discrimination has taken place across different geographical locations, independently from the creed of the minority and majority religions. The guilty party may be the government, paramilitary groups, or even the society at large. To name some examples, a word as strong as genocide has been employed to describe the atrocities by ISIS against Yazidis, Shias, Christians, and other religious minorities.1 Of the 45 European countries in 2015, social hostilities towards Muslims, Christians, and Jews took place in 32, 21, and 33 countries respectively.2 In Myanmar, the Muslim Rohingya has been persecuted for decades. For example, their citizenship is denied, their freedom of movement has been restricted, and also prior to the 2016 and 2017 atrocities, military operations and sectarian violence have forced thousands to flee.3 Several interest groups, such as Open Doors,4 Shia Rights Watch,5 and the International Humanist and Ethical Union6 have documented this discrimination and aimed to bring it into the political arena. Yet, in academia there are only a handful of quantitative studies that investigate the determinants of discrimination7 and religious persecution.8 These studies have a global focus and they point out factors such as the level of democracy, supportive policies towards the majority religion, social regulation of religion, experiences with communist rule, as well as the independence of judiciaries as determinants of the cross-country variation in minority religion discrimination. In other words, the scope of the studies and the selection of the independent variables closely follow the research design of the studies on government regulation of religion.9
Creed · Criminology · Dignity · Genocide · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Racism · Religious discrimination · Religious persecution · Sociology · Xenophobia · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · International Law and Human Rights · Islamic Studies and History · Law
Governmental discrimination against religious minorities in the post-communist states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 1990–2023
Identification of Cross-Country Similarities and Differences in Regulation of Religion Between 2000 and 2014 with Help of Cluster Analysis
Co-optation and Repression of Religion in Authoritarian Regimes
Do Religion Clauses in Constitutions Predict Government-Based Discrimination against Religious Minorities
Health Disparities between Religious Majority and Minority
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries
The dejudicialization of religious freedom
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |