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South African Department for Higher Education and Training put IJRF on the list of approved journals (Cape Town/Bonn, Bonner Querschnitte News 196 – No. 02/2012) The International Journal for Religious Freedom (IJRF) has been included in the […]
The following review will be published in a shorter version in the International Journal for Religious Freedom (see here) in summer: Nazila Ghanea (ed.). Religion and human rights. 4 volumes. New York: Routledge, 2010, 1600 p., […]
Bielefeldt and Schirrmacher hold a public discussion in a Nuremberg church In a joint event in the Langwasser Free Church (in German, Freie Christengemeinde Langwasser, related to the Czech Brethren tradition) in Nuremberg, the United […]
My written statement for the German federal parlament (Deutscher Bundestag) end of October 2010 (see here) has been translated into English meanwhile by my able translator Dr. Richard McClary: Collective list of questions for the public hearing […]
International Institute of Religious Freedom hosts religious freedom panel at the Global Media Forum (Bonner Querschnitte No. 171, No. 16/2011) At one of the largest journalist conferences in the world, the annual Global Media Forum […]
Director of the IIRF holds guest lecture in Nepal (Bonner Querschnitte 173, Bonn, 04.07.2011) In a guest lecture at the largest university in Nepal, the sociologist of religion and director of the International Institute of […]
This is perhaps the best and most important publication on the topic of religious freedom to appear in recent years. Two statisticians of religion, Brian J. Grim, known as the head researcher of the study “Global Restrictions on Religion” of the Pew Forum, and Roger Finke, a professor of sociology and Director of Religion Data Archives, show that religious freedom contributes to peace and stability within a society and does not endanger it.