The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Subtitle: religious persecution and conflict in the 21st century
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780521146838
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Preface : Religions' shared experience of religious persecution and conflict; title: Religious persecution : pervasive and pernicious; title: Religious freedom : broken promises; title: Persecution : the price of freedom denied; title: Case studies : Japan (high levels of religious freedoms), Brazil (freedoms with some tensions), and Nigeria (partitioned religion-state power); title: A closer look : China (religion viewed as a threat), India (social monolopy), and Iran (social and political monopoly); title: What about Muslim-majority countries?; title: Do religious freedoms really matter?; title: Appendix : Testing the competing arguments