2025/07/02 by Paula M Arana Barbier, Ángela Suárez-Collado · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Religion and Society Interactions #Religion, Society, and Development #Religious Freedom and Discrimination
paper · pdf · doi:10.5209/anqe.101771
openalex publication_date 2025/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
This article analyses and presents religious accommodation as a mechanism for studying religious governance in Europe through the comparative inclusion of several religious minorities. It addresses the theoretical discourse generated by various disciplines to comprehend the issue from a multidisciplinary perspective and translate it into a more practical realm. It proposes a definition for Governmental Religious Accommodation, operationalised through proxy variables from the Religion and the State and the Global Restrictions on Religion datasets, reflecting three empirical areas of the concept (materials, practices, and rights). These undergo a Multiple Correspondence Analysis, which enables us to define and link the dimensions with their theoretical significance and the categorisation of countries. The results illustrate the general accommodation policies of countries, identifying Portugal as the nation with the most favourable policy and Bulgaria as the one with the most restrictive policy.