This past week, the US Department of State announced the creation of a new office that “will focus on engagement with…
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is professor of politics and religion at Northwestern and the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations and Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion, both published by Princeton, and coeditor of Theologies of American Exceptionalism (forthcoming), Politics of Religious Freedom, and Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age. She co-directs the Global Politics & Religion Research Group and co-curates the Teaching Law & Religion Case Study Archive. In 2019-20, she will be a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs.
Egyptian elections
The protests in the Middle East and North Africa, and the ensuing political changes, were intended to transcend the old…
Believing in religious freedom
Like a good movie, the story of international religious freedom offers something for everyone. It pits cowardly oppressors against heroic…
Reflections on summer reading
As the summer months draw to a close, we've turned again to a handful of our contributors, asking: What are…
The global securitization of religion
My first thought upon reading the Chicago Council’s report “Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy”…
The politics of secularism in international relations
A survey of leading contemporary international relations (IR) journals published between 1980 and 1996 revealed that 6 out of 1,600…
The other shore
For Lilla, Westerners are the exception because we live on what he calls “the other shore.” Civilizations on the “opposite…