Olga Breskaya, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. Her research focuses on the sociology of human rights and comparative study of religious freedom.Giuseppe Giordan is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. His research interests include spirituality, religious pluralism, conversion, interfaith dialogue, Eastern Orthodoxy, and religious freedom.Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His main scientific interests include religious changes in post-communism, state-church relations, religion and human rights, and comparative social policy.

• Introduction— Religious freedom: thinking sociologically 1. New frontiers of religious freedom? LGBTQ rights versus religious conscience 2. The power of “unintended”: Islamisation, freedom, and religiosity among the graduates of modern religious schools in post-revolutionary Iran 3. Social construction of religious freedom: a comparative study among youth in Italy and Russia 4. COVID-19, Shcincheonji, and the limits of South Korean secularism: The Devil in Patient 31 5. Mission not accomplished: the response of the State of Israel and NGOs to Christian missionary activity, 1966-1986

Olga Breskaya, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. Her research focuses on the sociology of human rights and comparative study of religious freedom.Giuseppe Giordan is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. His research interests include spirituality, religious pluralism, conversion, interfaith dialogue, Eastern Orthodoxy, and religious freedom.Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His main scientific interests include religious changes in post-communism, state-church relations, religion and human rights, and comparative social policy.

• Introduction— Religious freedom: thinking sociologically 1. New frontiers of religious freedom? LGBTQ rights versus religious conscience 2. The power of “unintended”: Islamisation, freedom, and religiosity among the graduates of modern religious schools in post-revolutionary Iran 3. Social construction of religious freedom: a comparative study among youth in Italy and Russia 4. COVID-19, Shcincheonji, and the limits of South Korean secularism: The Devil in Patient 31 5. Mission not accomplished: the response of the State of Israel and NGOs to Christian missionary activity, 1966-1986

Olga Breskaya, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. Her research focuses on the sociology of human rights and comparative study of religious freedom.Giuseppe Giordan is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. His research interests include spirituality, religious pluralism, conversion, interfaith dialogue, Eastern Orthodoxy, and religious freedom.Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. His main scientific interests include religious changes in post-communism, state-church relations, religion and human rights, and comparative social policy.

• Introduction— Religious freedom: thinking sociologically 1. New frontiers of religious freedom? LGBTQ rights versus religious conscience 2. The power of “unintended”: Islamisation, freedom, and religiosity among the graduates of modern religious schools in post-revolutionary Iran 3. Social construction of religious freedom: a comparative study among youth in Italy and Russia 4. COVID-19, Shcincheonji, and the limits of South Korean secularism: The Devil in Patient 31 5. Mission not accomplished: the response of the State of Israel and NGOs to Christian missionary activity, 1966-1986