Religious discrimination

Definition

Religious discrimination is treating a person, applicant, or group differently because of the particular beliefs which they hold about a religion.

Examples

This includes instances when adherents of different religions, denominations or non-religions are treated unequally due to their particular beliefs, either by the law or in institutional settings, such as employment or housing.

The law

In most countries, including the United States, it is illegal to discriminate a person or applicant based on religion.

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v t e Discrimination
General forms	Age Caste Class Disability Education Economic Employment Genetic Hair texture Height Housing Language Looks Race / Ethnicity / Nationality Rank Sanity Sex Sexual orientation Size Skin color Species
Social	Acephobia Adultism Amatonormativity Anti-albinism Anti-autism Anti-homelessness Anti-intellectualism Anti-intersex Anti-left handedness Anti-Masonry Antisemitism (Judeophobia) Aporophobia Audism Biphobia Clannism Cronyism Drug use Elitism Ephebiphobia Fatism Gerontophobia Heteronormativity Heterosexism HIV/AIDS stigma Homophobia Leprosy stigma Lesbophobia Misandry Misogyny Nepotism Pedophobia Perpetual foreigner Pregnancy Reverse Sectarianism Supremacism Black White Transphobia Non-binary Transmisogyny Vegaphobia Xenophobia
Religious	Ahmadiyya Atheism Baháʼí Faith Buddhism Catholicism Christianity post–Cold War era Falun Gong Hinduism Persecution Islam Persecution Jehovah's Witnesses Judaism Persecution LDS or Mormon Neopaganism Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Protestantism Rastafarianism Shi'ism Sufism Zoroastrianism
Ethnic/National	African Albanian American Arab Armenian Australian Austrian British Canadian Catalan Chilean Chinese Croat Dutch English Estonian European Filipino Finnish French Georgian German Greek Haitian Hazara Hindu Hispanic Hungarian Igbo Indian Indonesian Iranian Irish Israeli Italian Japanese Jewish Khmer Korean Kurdish Malay Manchu Mexican Middle Eastern Mongolian Pakistani Pashtun Polish Portuguese Quebec Romani Romanian Russian Scottish Serb Slavic Somali Soviet Tatar Thai Turkish Ukrainian Venezuelan Vietnamese Western
Manifestations	Animal industrial complex Animal testing Blood libel Blood sport Bullying Carnism Compulsory sterilization Counter-jihad Cruelty to animals Cultural genocide Defamation Democide Disability hate crime Dog-whistle politics Eliminationism Enemy of the people Ethnic cleansing Ethnic conflict Ethnic hatred Ethnic joke Ethnocide Forced conversion Freak show Gay bashing Gendercide Genital modification and mutilation Genocide examples Glass ceiling Hate crime Hate group Hate speech Homeless dumping Indian rolling Lavender scare LGBT hate crimes Lynching Meat eating Mortgage Murder music Native American sports mascots Occupational segregation Persecution Pogrom Purge Red Scare Religious persecution Religious terrorism Religious violence Religious war Scapegoating Segregation academy Sex-selective abortion Slavery Slut-shaming Trans bashing Victimisation Violence against women White flight White power music Wife selling Witch-hunt
Discriminatory policies	Age of candidacy Blood purity Blood quantum Crime of apartheid Disabilities Catholic Jewish Ethnocracy Ethnopluralism Gender pay gap Gender roles Gerontocracy Gerrymandering Ghetto benches Internment Jewish quota Jim Crow laws Law for Protection of the Nation McCarthyism MSM blood donation restrictions Nonpersons Numerus clausus (as religious or racial quota) Nuremberg Laws One-drop rule Racial quota Racial steering Redlining Same-sex marriage (laws and issues prohibiting) Segregation age racial religious sexual Sodomy law State atheism State religion Ugly law Voter suppression
Countermeasures	Affirmative action Animal rights Anti-discrimination law Cultural assimilation Cultural pluralism Diversity training Empowerment Feminism Fighting Discrimination Hate speech laws by country Human rights Intersex rights LGBT rights Masculism Multiculturalism Nonviolence Racial integration Reappropriation Self-determination Social integration Toleration Veganism Vegetarianism
Related topics	Allophilia Anthropocentrism Anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms Bias Christian privilege Civil liberties Cultural assimilation Dehumanization Diversity Ethnic penalty Eugenics Internalized oppression Intersectionality Madonna–whore complex Male privilege Masculism Medical model of disability autism Multiculturalism Net bias Neurodiversity Oikophobia Oppression Police brutality Political correctness Polyculturalism Power distance Prejudice Prisoner abuse Racial bias in criminal news Racism by country Religious intolerance Second-generation gender bias Snobbery Social exclusion Social model of disability Social stigma Stereotype threat The talk White privilege
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v t e Types of crime
Note: Crimes vary by jurisdiction. Not all types are listed here.
Classes	Infraction Misdemeanor Felony Summary Indictable Hybrid
Against the person	Assault Battery Cybersex trafficking Extortion Discrimination Harassment Kidnapping Identity theft Manslaughter Mayhem Murder Rape Robbery Sex trafficking Sexual assault Sexual slavery Corporate manslaughter
Against property	Arson Blackmail Burglary Deception Embezzlement False pretenses Fraud Larceny Possession of stolen goods Theft Vandalism
Against public order	Drug possession Public order Breach of the peace
Against the state	Tax evasion Espionage Treason High treason
Against justice	Bribery Misprision of felony Obstruction Perjury Malfeasance in office
Inchoate offenses	Accessory Attempt Conspiracy Incitement Encouraging or assisting a crime Solicitation Common purpose
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