A Sociology of Religious Freedom Olga Breskaya, Giuseppe Giordan, and James T. Richardson Illustrates recent attempts of sociologists, legal scholars, and political scientists to define religious freedom, inviting academics to broaden their understanding of the concept Examines various historical and structural factors that have contributed to developing religious freedom within the United States and the Council of Europe, as well as the European Union Summarizes existing empirical projects covering cross-national studies in the field of religious freedom conducted from 1970s