Religious Freedom in the World

Religious persecution affects all religious groups. There is no group in the world that does not suffer to some degree because of its beliefs. Religious Freedom in the World profiles 101 countries and territories, which between them contain more than 95 percent of the world's population, and uses a clearly comprehensible numeric scale to rank the level of religious freedom found in each. It also provides separately derived measures of government regulation of religion, government favoritism of religion, and social regulation of religion. The countries have been selected so that the survey represents each continent, major religion, and geographic area; covers countries with large populations; describes particularly egregious violators of religious freedom; and adequately illustrates variations within regions. Book jacket.Marshall, Paul A. is the author of 'Religious Freedom in the World', published 2007 under ISBN 9780742562134 and ISBN 0742562131.