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
1 - Introduction
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
If there is one aspiration shared by all religious people worldwide, it is the desire to practice their religions freely and without hindrance or restriction. While many of these people may not feel that members of other religions should have this same right, this desire for the free exercise of religion is universal among the religious. Yet, as I discuss in more detail in Chapter 2, religious discrimination is ubiquitous against religious minorities. Thus, this yearning for religious freedom is far more often a dream than it is a reality for religious minorities.
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- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before MeWhy Governments Discriminate against Religious Minorities, pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020