Book contents
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Government-Based Religious Discrimination
- 3 Societal Discrimination
- 4 Support, Regulation, and Religious Regime as Causes of GRD in the Muslim World
- 5 Non-Orthodox Christian-Majority Democracies in the West and Europe
- 6 Orthodox, Buddhist, and Communist States
- 7 The Rest 1
- 8 The Rest 2
- 9 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Non-Orthodox Christian-Majority Democracies in the West and Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Government-Based Religious Discrimination
- 3 Societal Discrimination
- 4 Support, Regulation, and Religious Regime as Causes of GRD in the Muslim World
- 5 Non-Orthodox Christian-Majority Democracies in the West and Europe
- 6 Orthodox, Buddhist, and Communist States
- 7 The Rest 1
- 8 The Rest 2
- 9 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on Western democracies and those former-Soviet Christian-majority democracies that do not have Orthodox Christian majorities. As this is a somewhat awkward label for a group of states, I refer to them in this chapter as European and Western non-Orthodox Christian-majority democracies (EWNOCMD). For operational purposes I define democracy here as any state that scores 8 or higher on the Polity index which measures countries on a scale of –10 (most autocratic) to 10 (most democratic) (The Polity Project, 2018). I include countries with no polity score if the Freedom House democracy index determined them to be “free” (Abramowitz, 2018).
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- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before MeWhy Governments Discriminate against Religious Minorities, pp. 132 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020