Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions

Eileen Barker, FBA, FAcSS, OBE, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. She has spent the past five decades studying minority religions and social reactions to them. In 1988 she founded Inform in order to help enquirers with information that is as reliable, balanced, contextualised and up-to-date as possible. She has over 400 scholarly publications and is series editor of the Routledge Inform book series. James T. Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, USA. He is a sociologist with legal training and has been researching new religious movements for five decades. He is the author of over a dozen books and over 300 articles in journals and chapters in edited collections. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in the Netherlands and a Rockefeller Scholar at the Bellagio Center in Italy as well as being an invited guest of universities in Europe, Australia and China.

• 1 Fight, Flight or Freeze? Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions 2 Stand Up For Your Rights: (Minority) Religions’ Reactions to the Law in Estonia 3 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Law: "Caesar’s Things to Caesar, but God’s Things to God" 4 Scientology Behind the Scenes: The Law Changer 5 No Stranger to Litigation: Court Cases Involving the Unification Church/Family Federation in the United States 6 Legal Challenges Posed to the Unification Church in Europe: Perspectives from a Unificationist Advocate for Religious Freedom 7 The "Doukhobor Problem" in Canada: How a Russian Mystical Sect Responded to Law Enforcement in British Columbia, 1903–2013 8 Making Sense of the Institutional Demarcation: Tenrikyō’s Response to Legal Environments in France 9 Strategies in Context:Tthe Essenes in France and Canada 10 Reactions to Legal Challenges by Aum Shinrikyō and its Successor Organisations 11 Religious Persecution and Refugees: Legal and Communication Strategies of the Church of Almighty God in Asylum Cases 12 Minority Religion Reactions to the European Court Of Human Rights 13 Minority Religions Respond to the Law: A Theoretical Excursus

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