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October 23, 2002 - Die Beschimpfung von Bekenntnissen, Religionsgesellschaften und Weltanschauungsvereinigungen ist ein Straftatbestand (Vergehen), der im § 166 StGB der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geregelt ist. Wegen seiner Geschichte wird § 166 häufig, juristisch unzutreffend, als Gotteslästerungsparagraph ...

1 week ago - Religious persecution may be triggered by religious or antireligious stances (when members of a dominant group denigrate religions other than their own or religion itself where the irreligious are the dominant group) or it may be triggered by the state when it views a particular religious group ...

February 1, 2023 - Every major religion has groups and individuals who use religion to justify violent behavior and extreme political objectives.

December 19, 2025 - People who do not identify with a religion, such as atheists or agnostics, are counted as targets of religious harassment if the sources used in the study indicate they were targeted due to their beliefs or non-beliefs.

October 20, 2023 - For many, it’s like a comforting friend during tough times. However, it’s important to remember that religion isn’t always just about comfort. Sometimes, it has been used in ways that aren’t so good. It has been like a tool that powerful people use to control others and keep them down.

January 27, 2026 - One specific meaning of the term religious abuse refers to psychological manipulation and harm inflicted on a person by using the teachings of their religion. This is perpetrated by members of the same or similar faith that includes the use of a position of authority within the religion.

While any believer or nonbeliever ... in America today, so generally religious oppression refers to intolerance toward nonbelievers and members of minority religions such as Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, or Wicca....

June 26, 2013 - But not all women find themselves in a situation where they are so broken they cannot make the kinds of connections with others that they so long for and deserve. It makes it clear that there’s an underlying issue…that self-hate was not only taught to me from society, but also from exposure to a toxic form of religion.

December 31, 2025 - Religious fanaticism or religious extremism is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could ...

KAICIID has brought together major Muslim leaders from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab world, with heads of minority communities in those countries – Christian, Kurd, Yazidi, Druze – under the rubric “combating violence in the name of religion”. It has developed networks of collaboration throughout the region, training religious leaders in dialogue and social media skills.

Although all mass movements breed the occasional extremist2, the horrific spectres of oppression and violent coercion have resulted mostly from Abrahamic monotheistic religions such as Judaism3, Christianity (mostly in the past) and Islam (particularly prone to it at present4), and to a lesser extent from other traditional religions such as Hinduism, especially as a result of battles against multiculturalism.

October 29, 2019 - Even though religious extremism is currently a hotly debated topic, it is often reduced to a unidimensional construct that is linked to religious violence. W...

The role of religion in deterring criminal behavior can be explained by belief in supernatural punishment/rewards (e.g., “I will not go to heaven if I harm others”),25 socialization,26,27 social support,28 and the encouragement of healthy behaviors and attitudes.29 The theory of social ...

January 30, 2023 - With this background, I feel comfortable asserting that all of the world's major religions have groups and individuals who have used and are today using religion to justify violent behavior and extreme political objectives.

Without the guiding and constraining influence of mature personal or religious identity, which tend to be prosocial, the more concrete, risky, aggressive, hostile, and coalitional kinds of levers for activating RAM could be especially alluring. Indeed, markers of concrete coalitional but not intrinsic religion predict support for suicide bombers and prejudice (Allport and Ross, 1967; Ginges et al., 2009).

Recently, we witnessed a surge in psychological research examining the role of religion in human life (e.g., Ysseldyk et al., 2010; Coyle and Lyons, 2011; Brambilla et al., 2016). This rise in interest can probably be explained by recent concerns in the Western world about the social and political implications of the surge of “bad religion” (Basedau et al., 2016).

June 14, 2023 - High-control, high-demand religion doesn’t let you go—even after you’ve physically left, writes Michelle Dowd.

Der PMK -religiöse Ideologie- werden Straftaten zugeordnet, bei denen Anhaltspunkte dafür vorliegen, dass eine religiöse Ideologie entscheidend für die Tatbegehung war und die Religion zur Begründung der Tat instrumentalisiert wurde.

In Artikel 4 des Grundgesetzes ist die freie Religionsausübung aller Bürger*innen festgeschrieben. Darüber hinaus sind Menschen durch das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG) im Arbeitsleben vor Diskriminierungen wegen der Religion oder Weltanschauung geschützt (§ 1 AGG).