1st Edition
Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions
1 Fight, Flight or Freeze? Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions
Eileen Barker
2 Stand Up For Your Rights: (Minority) Religions’ Reactions to the Law in Estonia
Ringo Ringvee
3 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Law: "Caesar’s Things to Caesar, but God’s Things to God"
Tony Brace
4 Scientology Behind the Scenes: The Law Changer
Eric Roux
5 No Stranger to Litigation: Court Cases Involving the Unification Church/Family Federation in the United States
Michael L. Mickler
6 Legal Challenges Posed to the Unification Church in Europe: Perspectives from a Unificationist Advocate for Religious Freedom
Peter Zoehrer
7 The "Doukhobor Problem" in Canada: How a Russian Mystical Sect Responded to Law Enforcement in British Columbia, 1903–2013
Susan Palmer and Shane Dussault
8 Making Sense of the Institutional Demarcation: Tenrikyō’s Response to Legal Environments in France
Masato Kato
9 Strategies in Context:Tthe Essenes in France and Canada
Marie-Ève Melanson and Jennifer Guyver
10 Reactions to Legal Challenges by Aum Shinrikyō and its Successor Organisations
Rin Ushiyama
11 Religious Persecution and Refugees: Legal and Communication Strategies of the Church of Almighty God in Asylum Cases
Massimo Introvigne and Rosita Šorytė
12 Minority Religion Reactions to the European Court Of Human Rights
Effie Fokas
13 Minority Religions Respond to the Law: A Theoretical Excursus
James T. Richardson
Biography
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.
"With its broad scope, the publication is an ideal starting point for everyone interested in this specific chapter of the history of religions and the more general question of how religions and state authorities get along."
- Franz Winter, University of Graz
