The future of civilization and state religion policy

The Rainbow Effect: Media Freedom, Internet Access, and Gay Rights

“…Specifically we use the government involvement in religion variable, which combines a variety of indicators of the relationship between government, including official support for religion, official hostility toward religion, the extent to which government supports one religion over another, the extent to which government restricts some or all minority religions, the extent to which government regulates all religions or the majority religion, the extent to which government legislates religion into law, and to what proportion the laws in a state are influenced by religion or based on religious code (Fox, ). This variable ranges from 0 to 14, where 0 reflects a specific hostility to religion, 3 is separationist and slightly hostile to religion, 4 is separationist and accommodating, and 14 is when a particular religion is mandatory to all (Fox, ).…”

Re-Thinking Religious Diversity: Diversities and Governance of Diversities in “Post-Societies”

“…Acceptance of diversity is also visible in the "disestablishment" process in the Church-state relations, as certain European countries have dissolved their strong ties with the state or national Churches, as well as in the emergence of what is known as the European model of Church and state, partly seen in the protection of religious freedom and rights and neutrality of the state in exclusively religious matters (Robers 2005;Torfs 2007). On the other hand, religious discrimination has been on the rise around the globe and though Western democracies (including Western European states) are still far more tolerant and pluralist in comparison to other world regions, there are also patterns of rising religious discrimination, rising religious regulation, and rising religious legislation (Fox 2007(Fox , 2010 in these countries as well. While controversies about Islam are part of this process, this should not be reduced to the question S. Zrins ˇc ˇak (*) Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Trg m. Tita 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: sinisa.zrinscak@pravo.hr of the Muslim presence in Europe and how different Islamic traditions are (or are not) in concordance with the European, mostly secular, public spaces, as many European countries continue to discriminate against (or try to highly regulate) non-traditional minority religions, including those which are known as new religious movements (Richardson and Lykes 2012).…”

Religious Pluralism

“…Acceptance of diversity is also visible in the "disestablishment" process in the Church-state relations, as certain European countries have dissolved their strong ties with the state or national Churches, as well as in the emergence of what is known as the European model of Church and state, partly seen in the protection of religious freedom and rights and neutrality of the state in exclusively religious matters (Robers 2005;Torfs 2007). On the other hand, religious discrimination has been on the rise around the globe and though Western democracies (including Western European states) are still far more tolerant and pluralist in comparison to other world regions, there are also patterns of rising religious discrimination, rising religious regulation, and rising religious legislation (Fox 2007(Fox , 2010 in these countries as well. While controversies about Islam are part of this process, this should not be reduced to the question S. Zrinščak (*) Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Trg m. Tita 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: sinisa.zrinscak@pravo.hr of the Muslim presence in Europe and how different Islamic traditions are (or are not) in concordance with the European, mostly secular, public spaces, as many European countries continue to discriminate against (or try to highly regulate) non-traditional minority religions, including those which are known as new religious movements (Richardson and Lykes 2012).…”