An Argument against Registration of Religions

DOI

10.2991/icils-19.2019.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reegistration of Religions, Human Rights, Minority, Administrative Law

Abstract

The paper examines how is the perspective of freedom of religion and human rights, the official registration and recognition of religious groups is inevitably problematic in democratic societies. Several arguments against the practice follow, but many share a common theme: scepticism of government power. When bureaucrats and politicians gain authority over religion, they are likely to exercise their power in ways that are clumsy, narrow-minded, and for their own political purposes. This inevitable misuse of power then distorts the independence of religious groups and the freedoms of individual religious believers.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jeremy Patrick
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TI  - An Argument against Registration of Religions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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