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.