Previous research into the religious life of Roma in Serbia has mostly been based on questionnaires and surveys of sociologists of religion on their religious (current connection to religion and church) and confessional (belonging to a religion) self-identification, on the ritual celebration of two religious-ethnic holidays: Vlasuljica (January 14, St. Basil) and Đurđevdan (May 6, St. George), ...

The majority of the world’s countries have implemented policies designed to advance the political representation of women and/or minority groups. Yet we do not yet understand how these disparate policies affect the election of minority women. In this article, I draw on theories of intersectionality to conduct the first worldwide analysis of the effects of gender and minority quotas on minority ...

This paper examined the influence of religion on the adoption of female sterilization, using data from the 1992/93 Indian National Family Health Survey. The influence of religion at both individual and district levels was examined, and a multi-level modelling methodology was used for assessing community variations in the influence of religion on the adoption of sterilization. Individual religio...

Christian Americans are on track to become a minority of the U.S. population by mid-century. Research racial demographic shifts shows majority-group members experience status threat when reminded similar changes. Public debate about religious freedom and role Christianity in America suggest that fast-changing demographics similarly elicit threat, trigger defensive political stances, among Ameri...

This paper investigates the correlations between human rights situation and religious identity among minorities. It uses an integrated longitudinal dataset of World Values Survey waves from 1990 to 2014 three measures test how (a) constitutional guarantees freedom equality, (b) governmental practices, (c) societal discrimination prejudice against minority religions correlate with average streng...

alongside national minorities, who raise similar demands. ~ a n g u a ~ e rights are commonly defined as rights that protect the use of particular languages, namely one's mother tongue or native language.' Language rights are regarded as minority rights because in a heterogeneous linguistic society, it is only the minority groups whose language requires legal protection. As opposed to members o...

There is a paucity, of literature in social work on the intersection between social justice and religion, even though the profession's code of ethics articulates the need to advocate for social justice and eliminate religious discrimination. Therefore, this article helps equip social workers to challenge social injustice on behalf of people of faith around the world. Toward this end, the author...