Regulating Religion in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regulating Religion in Asia write by Jaclyn L. Neo. This book was released on 2019-03-28. Regulating Religion in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia, including how religion responds to such regulations. It looks at underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and the challenges emerging from such regulation.
Regulating Religion
Regulating Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regulating Religion write by James T. Richardson. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Regulating Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers.
The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad
The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad write by Alexander Rocklin. This book was released on 2019. The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together--under the watchful eyes of the British rulers--to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion--they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives--they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
Regulating Religion
Regulating Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regulating Religion write by Catharine Cookson. This book was released on 2001-03-29. Regulating Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jurisprudence regarding the "free exercise of religion" clause of the U.S. Constitution is in a state of confusion. There has been a series of rapid changes in the standard used by the Supreme Court to determine when a statute impermissibly restricts free exercise. The trend is now towards greater acceptance of government claims about the importance of regulation over religious practices. Here, Cookson challenges the wisdom of this judicial drift, and its false dichotomy between anarchy and a system that respects religious freedom. In its place she offers a new, practical approach to resolving free exercise conflicts that could be used in both federal and state courts. Cookson shows the reader how violations of religious freedom affect the community whose values are at stake.
Identifying and Regulating Religion in India
Identifying and Regulating Religion in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identifying and Regulating Religion in India write by Geetanjali Srikantan. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Identifying and Regulating Religion in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. This book investigates the identification and regulation of religion through an intellectual history of law's creation of religion from the colonial to the post-colonial. Moving beyond conventional explanations on the failure of secularism and the secular state, it argues that the impasse in the legal regulation of religion lies in the methodologies and frameworks used by British colonial administrators in identifying and governing religion. Drawing on insights from post-colonial theory and religious studies, it demonstrates the role of secular legal reasoning in the background of Western intellectual history and Christian theology through an illustration of the place of worship. It is a contribution to South Asian legal history and sociolegal studies analysing court archives, colonial narratives and legislative documents.
