Religion Between Governance and Freedoms

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Olga Breskaya PhD is a senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy Sociology Education and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. Her research focuses on the sociology of religion human rights and comparative study of religious freedom. She recently co-edited Religious Freedom. Thinking Sociologically (Routledge 2023) and co-authored research articles: The Lautsi Legacy: A New Judgment on the Crucifix in Classrooms and the Multiculturalist Turn on Freedom of/from Religion in Italy (2022) Social Construction of Religious Freedom: A Comparative Study among Youth in Italy and Russia (2022) and Religious Freedom and Microsociology of Law: Thinking with Georges Gurvitch (2020) Roger Finke is a distinguished professor of sociology religious studies and international affairs at the Pennsylvania State University and is the founder of the Association of Religion Data Archives (www.theARDA.com). He has authored two award-winning books with Rodney Stark. His most recent books include The Price of Freedom Denied with BrianGrim (Cambridge University Press 2011) Places of Faith: A Road Trip Across Americas Religious Landscape with Christopher P. Scheitle (Oxford University Press 2012) and Faithful Measures: The Art and Science of Measuring Religion with Christopher Bader (New York University Press 2017) Giuseppe Giordan is a professor of sociology at the Department of Philosophy Sociology Education and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. His research interests include spirituality religious pluralism conversion interfaith dialogue Eastern Orthodoxy and religious freedom. He has recently co-edited the volumes Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches (Brill 2021) Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Politics Religion and Human Rights (Springer 2020) Chinese Religions Going Global (Brill 2021) and Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics (Brill 2019). He co-authored Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan 2018)