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Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

Before Christian nationalism: Syncretic civic moralism, the Supreme Court, and the formation of young Americans

October 26, 2023

Over the last few years, we have seen what Candace Lukasik has aptly termed “anxious scholarly debate” regarding the rise of Christian nationalism. Scholars are alarmed that an informal religious establishment seems…

October 26, 2023

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

Religion, democracy, and Christian nationalism

Alexa S. Dietrich·

October 26, 2023

The intersection of religion and politics has been a key focus of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Program on Religion and the Public Sphere (RPS), though sometimes the engagement would come…

October 26, 2023

Law, religion, and state building

Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law

Kathleen M. Moore·

October 24, 2023

Around the world today, and especially in Euro-Atlantic contexts, we often hear the thesis that a resurgence of religion as a politically relevant phenomenon is everywhere. Indeed, the close of the twentieth…

October 24, 2023

Law, religion, and state building

Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies

René Provost·

October 17, 2023

The glittering and hurting days are almost done Then let us compare mythologies I have learned my elaborate lie of soaring crosses and poisoned thorns. —Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956)…

October 17, 2023

Law, religion, and state building

Rule of law as imperial theology

Jack Jin Gary Lee·

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

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Before Christian nationalism: Syncretic civic moralism, the Supreme Court, and the formation of young Americans

Religion, democracy, and Christian nationalism

Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law

Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies

Rule of law as imperial theology

Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion