Book contents
- 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
9 - Conclusions
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
Despite the obvious complexity of the world we live in, there is a desire for simple easy-to-understand principles to help us comprehend it. This is one of the roles of theories and models, to take a complex reality and simplify it sufficiently so we can better understand it. Of course, we acknowledge that reality is more complex, but some of this complexity is sacrificed to achieve better understanding. Because of this, it is popular in academic literature when addressing a topic to form a basic parsimonious theory that “explains” the topic at hand.
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- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before MeWhy Governments Discriminate against Religious Minorities, pp. 243 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020