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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource ( xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements Routledge Inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements.
Subject:	Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe. Conflict of laws. Conflict of laws Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. Europe
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12514172

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Other authors / contributors:	Barker, Eileen, 1938- editor. Richardson, James T., 1941- editor.
ISBN:	9781003053590 1003053599 9781000333244 1000333248 9781000333305 1000333302 9781000333367 1000333361 9780367484323
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Eileen Barker, FBA, FAcSS, OBE,is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. She has spent the past five decades studying minority religions and social reactions to them. In 1988 she founded Inform in order to help enquirers with information that is as reliable, balanced, contextualised and up-to-date as possible. She has over 400 scholarly publications and is series editor of the Routledge Inform book series. James T. Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, USA. He is a sociologist with legal training and has been researching new religious movements for five decades. He is the author of over a dozen books and over 300 articles in journals and chapters in edited collections. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in the Netherlands and a Rockefeller Scholar at the Bellagio Center in Italy as well as being an invited guest of universities in Europe, Australia and China. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2021).
Other form:	Print version: Reactions to the law by minority religions Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9780367484323

Table of Contents:

Fight, flight or freeze? Reactions to the law by minority religions / Eileen Barker
Stand up for your rights : (minority) religions' reactions to law in Estonia / Ringo Ringvee
Jehovah's Witnesses and the law : "Caesar's things to Caesar, but God's things to God" / Tony Brace
Scientology behind the scenes : the law changer / Eric Roux
No stranger to litigation : court cases involving the unification church/Family Federation in the United States / Michael L. Mickler
Legal challenges posed to the unification church in Europe : perspectives from a unificationist advocate for religious freedom / Peter Zoehrer
The "Doukhobor problem" in Canada : how a Russian mystical sect responded to law enforcement in British Columbia, 1903 to 2013 / Susan Palmer and Shane Dussault
Making sense of the institutional demarcation : Tenrikyō's response to legal environments in France / Masato Kato
Strategies in context : the essenes in France and Canada / Marie-Eve Melanson and Jennifer Guyver
Reactions to legal challenges by Aum Shinrikyō and its successor organisations / Rin Ushiyama
Religious persecution and refugees : legal and communication strategies of The Church of Almighty God in asylum cases / Massimo Introvigne And Rosita Šorytė
Minority religion reactions to the European Court of Human Rights / Effie Fokas.

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