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Freedom of religion

Here are entered works on the right or privilege of acting according to one's own view of religion without undue restraints or within reasonably formulated and legally specified limits. Works on the concept of freedom as viewed by religions are entered under Liberty -- Religious aspects.

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• Freedom of expression
• Liberty

• Freedom of religion -- Congresses
• Freedom of religion -- Early works to 1800
• Freedom of religion -- England
• Freedom of religion -- Europe
• Freedom of religion -- France
• Freedom of religion -- Great Britain
• Freedom of religion -- Idaho
• Freedom of religion -- Juvenile literature
• Freedom of religion -- Korea (North)
• Freedom of religion -- United States
• Freedom of religion -- Virginia

• Freedom of religion -- Law and legislation
• Freedom of worship
• Intolerance
• Liberty of religion
• Religious freedom
• Religious liberty
• Separation of church and state

• Freedom of Religion Under Bills of Rights (c2012), ed. by Paul Babie and Neville Rochow (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Debating the Divine: Religion in 21st Century American Democracy (Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2008), ed. by Sally Steenland (PDF files at americanprogress.org)
• Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles With Pluralism, by John Courtney Murray, ed. by J. Leon Hooper
  • Introduction: HTML at Wayback Machine
  • Chapter 1 (Leo XIII and Pius XII: Government and the Order of Religion): HTML at Georgetown
  • Chapter 2 (The Problem of Religious Freedom): HTML at Georgetown
  • Chapter 3 (The Issue of Church and State at Vatican Council II): HTML at Georgetown
  • Chapter 4 (Arguments for the Human Right to Religious Freedom): HTML at Georgetown
• Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chercheurs de Dieux dans l'Espace Public; Frontier Religions in Public Space (with articles in French and English; 2001), ed. by Pauline Côté (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, Discussed, in a Conference Betweene Truth and Peace (1644), by Roger Williams, contrib. by John Cotton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shewing That it is Not Lawfull for Any Power on Earth to Compell in Matters of Religion (1659), by John Milton (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody, by Mr Cottons Endevour to Wash it White in the Blood of the Lambe (London: Printed for G. Calvert, 1652), by Roger Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed, and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered (London: Printed for the Hanserd Knollys Society by J. Haddon, 1848), by Roger Williams, ed. by Edward Bean Underhill, contrib. by John Cotton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed; and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered (originally published 1644; London: J. Haddon, 1848), by Roger Williams, ed. by Edward Bean Underhill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (Publications of the Narragansett Club, first series, v3; 1867), by Roger Williams, ed. by Samuel L. Caldwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Edict of the French King, Prohibiting all Publick Exercise of the Pretended Reformed Religion in His Kingdom (with various related documents; second edition, corrected; London: Printed by G. M., 1686), by King of France Louis XIV, contrib. by Elector of Brandenburg Friedrich Wilhelm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Testimony for Truth Against All Hireling Priests and Deceivers, by Judith Boulbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Histoire de la Liberté de Conscience en France Depuis l'Édit de Nantes Jusqu'à Juillet 1870 (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1900), by Gaston Bonet-Maury
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• La Liberté de Conscience en France Depuis l'Édit de Nantes Jusqu'à la Séparation (1598-1905) (second edition, in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1909), by Gaston Bonet-Maury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Samuel D. Davis, Appellant, v. H.G. Beason, Sheriff of Oneida County, Idaho Territory: Brief for Appellant (prepared for argument in the US Supreme Court; 1889), by Franklin S. Richards, Jeremiah M. Wilson, and Samuel Shellabarger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Crusaders for Freedom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1962), by Henry Steele Commager, illust. by Mimi Korach (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Prison Without Bars: Refugee and Defector Testimonies of Severe Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief in North Korea (in English and Korean; 2008), by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (PDF at uscirf.gov)
• "Thank You, Father Kim Il Sung": Eyewitness Accounts of Severe Violations of Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in North Korea (Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, 2005), by David R. Hawk
  • PDF at uscirf.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• FIRE's Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus (c2002), by David A. French (PDF files with commentary at thefire.org)
• First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2016), by Ruthann Robson (revised first edition: multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rise of Religious Liberty in America: A History (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Sanford H. Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Nation's Right to Worship God, by Joshua Hall McIlvaine (page images at MOA)
• Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles With Pluralism, by John Courtney Murray, ed. by J. Leon Hooper
  • Introduction: HTML at Wayback Machine
  • Chapter 1 (Leo XIII and Pius XII: Government and the Order of Religion): HTML at Georgetown
  • Chapter 2 (The Problem of Religious Freedom): HTML at Georgetown
  • Chapter 3 (The Issue of Church and State at Vatican Council II): HTML at Georgetown
  • Chapter 4 (Arguments for the Human Right to Religious Freedom): HTML at Georgetown

• Imprisoned Preachers and Religious Liberty in Virginia: A Narrative Drawn Largely From the Official records of Virginia Counties, Unpublished Manuscripts, Letters, and Other Original Sources (Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., 1938), by Lewis Peyton Little (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Defence Handbook for Journalists and Bloggers on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information Principles in International Law (2015), by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reporters Without Borders, and Paul Hastings LLP, ed. by Prisca Orsonneau and Paul Coppin (PDF with commentary at trust.org)
• Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 Answers to 4 Questions (2003), ed. by Christiane Hardy and Christian Möller (HTML at osce.org)
• Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), ed. by Ralf Grüttemeier, contrib. by Gisèle Sapiro, Anton Kirchhofer, Ted Laros, K. Beekman, Claudia Lieb, Sylvia Sasse, Katharina Hupe, Peter D. McDonald, and Martin A. Kayman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams, contrib. by Michael Taussig, Nadine Strossen, Brett Gary, Tim Miller, Jyoti Puri, Laura Kipnis, Mikita Brottman, David Sterritt, and John Durham Peters (PDF at Ohio State)
• Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens human Rights (in multiple languages; 2019), by Amnesty International (PDF files with commentary at amnesty.org)
• Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression (in English, French, and Arabic; Paris: UNESCO, 2012), by Toby Mendel, Andrew Puddephatt, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, and Natalia Torres (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Still Not Fully Protected: Rights to Freedom of Expression and Information under Angola's New Press Law (2006), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jordan: A Death Knell for Free Expression? The New Amendments to the Press and Publications Law (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1997), by Virginia N. Sherry (HTML at hrw.org)

• Online and On All Fronts: Russia's Assault on Freedom of Expression (in English and Russian; New York: Human Rights Watch, 2017), by Yulia Gorbunova (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• FIRE's Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus (2005), by Harvey A. Silverglate and Jordan Lorence (PDF files with commentary at thefire.org)
• Freedom of Expression ®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (2005), by Kembrew McLeod (PDF with commentary at kembrew.com)

• Freedom of Expression in Universities and University Colleges: More Democracy, More Openness, and More Humanity? (Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, c2020), ed. by Mona Wille (PDF with commentary at Scandinavian Academic Press)
• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (2008), by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú, contrib. by Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Amy Tak-Yee Lai (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Defeating Disinformation: Digital Platform Responsibility, Regulation, and Content Moderation on the Global Technological Commons (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ed. by Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel P. Trachtman (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge)
• Suppression Stories (1997), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The Limits of Religious Tolerance (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2016), by Alan Levinovitz (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• We Want a University (ca. 1965), by Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), contrib. by Neal Blumenfeld (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Off Limits: Censorship and Corruption (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), by Paul Glickman (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1810-1815) (extract from Le Livre, in French; 1887), by Henri Welschinger
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Liberty and the News (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Walter Lippmann (multiple fomrats at archive.org)
• On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)
• The Free Press (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1918), by Hilaire Belloc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• You Can't Print That! The Truth Behind the News, 1918-1928, by George Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.