State Responses to Minority Religions

Bibliographic Data

ID7872354
AuthorsNilay Saiya (0000-0003-1829-9971, SUNY Brockport, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume57
Issue2
Pages364-366
Publication date2015-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Church and State (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jcs/csv023
OpenAlexW2137007591
LanguageEN
Citations received10

David M. Kirkham's edited volume State Responses to Minority Religions is a timely and important contribution with a strong rationale. Given the contemporary realities of global migration and the consequent increasing religious diversity found in countries around the world, the contributors to this volume set out to describe and explain the variety of state responses to the demands for religious liberty on the part of those belonging to minority faith communities. The interdisciplinary chapters feature contributions by scholars of international law, political scientists, sociologists, experts in religious studies, activists, and policy practitioners. The book is divided into five sections. The first offers a legal and normative overview of state responses to minority religions, with contributions by W. Cole Durham and Nazila Ghanea. A fine opening chapter by Durham sets the stage by discussing the wide array of governmental responses to minority religions and how religion-state policies are affecting ever-increasing numbers of people. Ghanea's chapter argues that religious minorities, paradoxically, have often been marginalized from the very minority rights framework intended to protect them.

Diversity (politics) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Minority rights · Normative · Political science · Politics · Religious diversity · Secular state · Sociology · State (computer science) · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Religious Freedom and Discrimination

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