Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 12 (2021)

Olga Breskaya, Ph.D., is a postdoctorate researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova. Her research interest is focused on sociology of human rights and quantitative study of religious freedom.Roger Finke is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Religious Studies, and International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University and is the Founder of the Association of Religion Data Archives (www.theARDA.com). He has authored two award-winning books with Rodney Stark. His most recent books include The Price of Freedom Denied with Brian Grim (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across America’s Religious Landscape with Christopher P. Scheitle (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Faithful Measures: The Art and Science of Measuring Religion with Christopher Bader (New York University Press, 2017).Giuseppe Giordan, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Padova. He is Coordinator of the International Joint PhD programme on Human Rights, Society and Multi- level Governance, and co-editor of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (Brill). His sociological research focuses on spirituality, conversion, religious and cultural pluralism, and religious freedom. He has recently edited Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Politics, Religion, and Human Rights with Siniša Zrinščak (Springer, 2020) and Chinese Religions Going Global with Nanlai Cao and Fenggang Yang (Brill, 2021).Contributors are: Zaheeda P. Alibhai, Chrysa Almpani, Olga Breskaya, Anindita Chakrabarti, Lukáš Dirga, Roger Finke, Giuseppe Giordan, Kerby Goff, Anna Grasso, Nuran Erol Işık, Dane R. Mataic, Efe Peker, Alexandros Sakellariou, Guillaume Silhol, Jan Váně, Barbara R. Walters.

• Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction—Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific ApproachesOlga Breskaya, Roger Finke, and Giuseppe GiordanPART 1Religious Freedom, Secularity and Secularism1 How does Secularity “Travel”?: Toward a Policy Mobilities Approach in the Study of Religious FreedomsEfe Peker2 Religious Freedom, Legal Activism, and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of SecularismAnindita Chakrabarti3 Religious Freedom and Secularism in Post-Revolutionary TunisiaAnna Grasso4 Religious Pluralism, Religious Freedom and the Secularization Process in the Greek Educational SystemAlexandros SakellariouPART 2Multi-level Study of Religious Freedom5 Regulating Sincerity: Religion, Law, Public Policy, and the Ambivalence of Religious Freedom in Pluralist SocietiesZaheeda P. Alibhai6 The Religionization in Alevi Culture: An Exploratory Study on Spiritual Leaders (Dedes)Nuran Erol Işık7 One, Many or None: Religious Truth-Claims and Social Perception of Religious FreedomOlga Breskaya and Giuseppe Giordan8 Religious Freedom in Prisons: A Case Study from the Czech RepublicJan Váně and Lukáš DirgaPART 3b>Politics and Policies on Religious Freedom9 Organizations and Religious Restrictions: An International Overview of the Intersection of State and Non-Governmental Organizations and Religious GroupsDane R. Mataic and Kerby Goff10 Religious Freedom between Politics and Policies: Social and Legal Conflicts over Catholic Religious Education in Italy, 1984–1992Guillaume Silhol11 The Measure of Cedaw: Religion, Religious Freedom, and the Rights of WomenBarbara R. Walters12 Religious Freedom and Religionization of World Politics: Views of EU Political and Religious RepresentativesChrysa K. AlmpaniIndex