The right to religious freedom and its defense as a principle of modern global policy

Marchenko, A. O. (2025) The right to religious freedom and its defense as a principle of modern global policy. Вісник Львівського університету. Серія філософсько-політологічні студії (61). с. 401-411. ISSN 2307-1664 (Print), 2663-5615 (Online)

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The article substantiates the position on the universal nature of religious freedom, based on relevant international documents and agreements, and emphasizes the importance of considering the freedom of religion or belief as a fundamental human right in a close relationship with other freedoms and individual rights in the policy implemented by international institutions and particular countries. The opinion is advocated that freedom of religion or belief helps to protect and ensure the right to worldview self-determination of an individual, promoting the realization of the possibility of expressing different views in private and public spaces. It is emphasized that religious freedom is positively and significantly correlated with democracy, guarantees respect for worldview and value diversity, promotes the rule of law, development, peace and stability, while restrictions on religious freedom are closely linked to political instability and can cause intol- erance, conflict and violence. The author have analyzed motives and actual practices in activities of state institutions for restricting religious freedom, as well as mechanisms developed by international institutions and individual states for monitoring countries regarding the level of their provision of freedom of religion or belief, evaluating their actions and encouraging or punishing the implemented policies in this area. It is noted that in the modern world, the issues of religious freedom cease to be issues related only to the religious sphere, but acquire a bright political overtone, and not only relations between religious communities or between the state and religious organizations depend on their solution, but also the balance of forces in the political arena, both at the level of individual states and at the international, global level.

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