Violations of religious freedom resulting from how states arrange their recognition and registration policies continue to escalate around the world. States might seek to regulate the religious activities of their citizens and recognition and registration are convenient tools in this pursuit. Registration is sometimes made mandatory; groups may be barred from accessing it and what they must do to first obtain and then to maintain registered status can be onerous. Such restrictive policies serve to preserve a religious or political hegemony by filtering out religions and beliefs deemed unfavourable and unworthy of recognition. After surveying the ways recognition and registration are misused, this article contends that more definitive international standards are necessary to supersede ambiguous guidelines. Furthermore, this article deliberates over the plausibility that recognition, as a mode of state–religion relations, might still have the potential to facilitate freedom of religion or belief. This relies on whether a state uses recognition to facilitate all religions and beliefs by reducing deep-set favouritism and any administrative hurdles imposed during registration.

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宗教或信仰的登记、承认和自由

由于各国如何安排承认和登记政策而导致的侵犯宗教自由的行为在世界范围内继续升级。各国可能会寻求规范其公民的宗教活动，承认和登记是实现这一目标的便利工具。注册有时是强制性的；团体可能被禁止访问它，他们必须做些什么才能首先获得然后保持注册状态可能很繁重。这种限制性政策通过过滤掉被认为不利和不值得承认的宗教和信仰，来维护宗教或政治霸权。在调查了承认和注册被滥用的方式之后，本文认为需要更明确的国际标准来取代模棱两可的指导方针。此外，本文探讨了这样一种可能性，即承认作为国家与宗教关系的一种模式，可能仍有促进宗教或信仰自由的潜力。这取决于一个国家是否通过减少根深蒂固的偏袒和在登记过程中施加的任何行政障碍，利用承认来促进所有宗教和信仰。