The Immanent Frame – Page 10 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Rule of law as imperial theology

October 10, 2023

Not only an instrument of power or a one-sided constraint on its use, the rule of law is also a resonant legal ideal. British lawmakers invoked it to justify colonial rule and…

October 10, 2023

Law, religion, and state building

Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion

Jason Klocek·

October 4, 2023

The cacophony of sounds at Easter in contemporary Cyprus is tremendous. From fieldwork on the island in 2015, I recall how church bells first peal out around 11:00 p.m. in the villages…

October 4, 2023

Law, religion, and state building

Privatization of assisted reproductive technologies in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Nadjma Yassari·

September 26, 2023

For most of its history, Islamic law has developed independently of the state, law-making being the sphere of legal scholars. Matters relating to family and childbearing were believed to belong to the…

September 26, 2023

Law, religion, and state building

Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers

Terry Halliday·

September 19, 2023

In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I was asked a surprising question. Fu Hualing, an academic authority on China’s…

September 19, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan·

August 23, 2023

One of the interesting things about religious nationalisms is their interchangeablity. I remember reading Peter van der Veer’s book, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India, when it came out in 1994.…

August 23, 2023

National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion

Toward illiberal secularisms in Western francophone societies

David Koussens·

August 16, 2023

Secularism requires that the state be separate from, and neutral vis-à-vis, religious groups. The state must also protect the religious freedom of all citizens, regardless of their beliefs. As demonstrated by scholars…

August 16, 2023

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Rule of law as imperial theology

Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion

Privatization of assisted reproductive technologies in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers

Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion

Toward illiberal secularisms in Western francophone societies