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- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Government-Based Religious Discrimination
- 3 Societal Discrimination
- 4 Support, Regulation, and Religious Regime as Causes of GRD in the Muslim World
- 5 Non-Orthodox Christian-Majority Democracies in the West and Europe
- 6 Orthodox, Buddhist, and Communist States
- 7 The Rest 1
- 8 The Rest 2
- 9 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Rest 1
Democracies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Government-Based Religious Discrimination
- 3 Societal Discrimination
- 4 Support, Regulation, and Religious Regime as Causes of GRD in the Muslim World
- 5 Non-Orthodox Christian-Majority Democracies in the West and Europe
- 6 Orthodox, Buddhist, and Communist States
- 7 The Rest 1
- 8 The Rest 2
- 9 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The previous chapters covered the West, the former-Soviet Bloc (except Bosnia),1 as well as all Muslim-majority, Orthodox-majority, Buddhist-majority, and Communist states around the world. This and the following chapter focus on “the rest,” that is, all states that do not fit into these categories. This chapter focuses on the democratic states in this category and refers to them as “the rest-democracies” (TRD). These 32 countries and 166 minorities are found primarily in Latin America, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, and the majority of them, but by no means all of them, are Christian-majority. As I did in Chapter 5, for operational purposes I define democracy here as any state that scores 8 or higher on the Polity index, which measures countries on a scale of –10 (most autocratic) to 10 (most democratic) (The Polity Project, 2018). Countries with no polity score were included if they were determined to be “free” by the Freedom House democracy index (Abramowitz, 2018).
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- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before MeWhy Governments Discriminate against Religious Minorities, pp. 191 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020