This introduction surveys the contributions to this issue, which were originally delivered at Oxford University in 2018. By exploring the interconnections and shared motifs, this article suggests that the answer to this symposium is a tentative ‘yes’, but that the sources of those threats arise from the background culture within which these papers are situated.

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宗教自由是否受到威胁？研讨会简介

本介绍调查了对该问题的贡献，这些贡献最初于 2018 年在牛津大学发表。通过探索相互关联和共享主题，本文表明本次研讨会的答案是暂定的“是”，但这些威胁的来源源于这些论文所处的背景文化。