Podoprigora, Roman2019-09-252019-09-252017-05-102003http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/164892"Like any other country, Kazakhstan has a distinctive religious character produced by historical, geographical, ethnic, political and other factors, which should be taken into consideration when analysing religious freedom and human rights as well as the status of religious organisations. Three important features of the religious character of Kazakhstan are as follows. First, religion has played an insignificant role in the country during various periods of its history, and this has resulted in the under- development of religious institutions and of church-state relationships. Second, there is no one dominant religion, because the country has been a place of migration and deportation of many peoples with a variety of religious faiths. Third, the intensive struggle against religion during the Soviet period has produced a predominantly secularised society"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderReligious FreedomHuman RightsKazakhstanMuslim influencereligionPolitical ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsReligious ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueIntercultural and contextual theologiesEuropean theologiesArticle