Olga Breskaya

This article presents the process of construction of a sociological instrument for the empirical study of social perception of religious freedom. In doing that, we examine existing theoretical perspectives of religious freedom analysis in social sciences and suggest the conceptualization model, which integrates five dimension of the meaning of religious freedom. We explore the structure of the concept of social perception of religious freedom and discuss its latent dimensions applying the exploratory factor analysis...

This article elaborates the sociological dimensions of religious freedom, drawing on the normative and political definitional frameworks. It discusses the challenges of normative, political, and socio-religious interpretations of religious freedom dynamics and the importance of sociologically driven perspectives for the further integration of religious freedom scholarship...

Do Italian and Russian youths differ in their perceptions of religious freedom and processes of religious socialization? And if so, whether the latter has predictive power vis-a-vis religious freedom...