The United States is unique among nations in claiming a heritage of religious freedom and a mission to spread it…
Daniel Philpott
Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he is affiliated with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (Princeton 2001); God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (Norton, 2011) (with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah); and, most recently, Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012). He has also worked for reconciliation in Kashmir and the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Philpott is also the author of a SSRC working paper on “Religion, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice.” Read Nathan Schneider's interview with Daniel Philpott here.
Latest posts
Reconciliation in the real world
March 1, 2013
In Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, I argue that religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular—offer…
Arguing with An-Na`im
July 14, 2008
What is interesting about An-Na`im's arguments is that they ground the case for the secular state not in the Quran,…
Political theology & liberal democracy
January 23, 2008
The idea of modern liberalism depends decisively on a jettisoning of theology as a source for arguing about politics: If…
Religion, reconciliation, and transitional justice
November 28, 2007
God is not retreating from public life: this has to be one of the most interesting claims to come out…