The Price of Piety? Religious Institutional Power and Rights of Marginalized Groups

• In Event: Colonialism, Religion and Integration

Brief Overview

This study uses cross-national evidence to show that powerful churches restrict women’s, minority, and LGBT+ rights. Democracies blunt (but don’t erase) these effects, revealing religion as a durable institutional force shaping human rights.

Authors

• Viktorya Erdogu, Binghamton University

• Anton Onishchenko, Binghamton University