Religious Freedom in Islam: A Global Landscape
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This paper presents a global landscape of religious freedom in Islam, a crucial matter for resolving the contentious contemporary debate over whether Islam is a peaceful or violent religion. The landscape shows a general dearth of religious freedom in Islam. This does not mean, though, that Islam is incompatible with religious freedom, for a large percentage of Muslim countries are governed by regimes inspired by western secularism. The paper also argues that religious freedom is neither synonymous nor co-extensive with electoral democracy. Several democracies with low levels of religious freedom exist in Muslim-majority countries, while authoritarian regimes with relatively high levels of religious freedom exist but are rare.
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Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke, supra note 4, 61-87. Grim and Finke also show that religious freedom correlates with other freedoms and measures of well being, for example, freedom of the press, percentage of GDP spent on public health, lower inflation, and higher income for women. They acknowledge, however, that these are correlations and make no claims about the causal relationships involved.
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Religious Freedom in Islam: A Global Landscape
In: Journal of Law, Religion and StateSearch for other papers by Daniel Philpott in
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This paper presents a global landscape of religious freedom in Islam, a crucial matter for resolving the contentious contemporary debate over whether Islam is a peaceful or violent religion. The landscape shows a general dearth of religious freedom in Islam. This does not mean, though, that Islam is incompatible with religious freedom, for a large percentage of Muslim countries are governed by regimes inspired by western secularism. The paper also argues that religious freedom is neither synonymous nor co-extensive with electoral democracy. Several democracies with low levels of religious freedom exist in Muslim-majority countries, while authoritarian regimes with relatively high levels of religious freedom exist but are rare.
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