Olga Breskaya, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at University of Padova. Her research focuses on the sociology of human rights and comparative study of religious freedom. She recently co-edited a volume of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches (2021) and coauthored articles ‘Human Rights and Religion: A Sociological Perspective’ (2018) and ‘Social Perception of Religious Freedom: Testing the Impact of Secularism and State-Religion Relations’ (2021) developing models of empirical research on religious freedom in sociopolitical analysis.