{"id":2742,"date":"2016-08-22T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:37","slug":"international-religious-freedom-report-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/08\/22\/international-religious-freedom-report-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"International Religious Freedom Report 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Published annually by the US State Department it<b> <\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">measures commitment to<\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">allow <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/j\/drl\/rls\/irf\/religiousfreedom\/index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">individuals to practice individual religious beliefs in countries worldwide.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Long term trends <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/j\/drl\/rls\/irf\/index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">can be traced via their website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> which has the full text of all reports from 2001 onwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Each country section has a religious demography profile, information on legal protection of religious rights, and societal tolerance. The latter includes summaries of hate crimes, religious attacks and key attitude surveys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Other great sources of religious data include:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa-data.natcen.ac.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\"> British Social Attitudes survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> enables you to explore data on religious affiliation since 1983.\u00a0 Find out if British citizens are getting more or less religious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Coming in the future! The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/religiondatabase.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Database of Religious History<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> has support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada it is aiming to provide a free online encyclopedia of qualitative and quantitative data on religious history worldwide. Contributors are invited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearda.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Association of Religion Data Archives.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Based at\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psu.edu\/\" target=\"NEW\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Pennsylvania State University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">, this wonderful online resource aims to provide free access to statistical information about religion. While the greatest focus is upon the US, there are also <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearda.com\/internationalData\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">international data sets.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearda.com\/internationalData\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Topics covered include<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> church membership, surveys of lifestyle and public attitudes towards religion.\u00a0 Most information is post 1990.\u00a0 The site also contains religious profiles of individual nations with data on religious group membership and tolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published annually by the US State Department it measures commitment to allow individuals to practice individual religious beliefs in countries worldwide. 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