...right of each human being to fulfill his individuality” constitutes Christianityʹs best contribution to world civilization. Indeed the political cogency of abortion debate sound‐bites depends on their grounds being indeterminable...
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Christian Human Rights
Where is America in human rights history?
by Gene Zubovich...secular values. Secularism is a contested concept that is best understood through context-specific inquiry. In 1948, the year that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, three debates were...
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CFP: Women, Religion, Conflict and Peace
by Jessica Polebaum...it played in combating it? -Woman as mother, victim, nurturer: use and abuse of gender stereotypes (including religious gender stereotypes) in peacebuilding. -The best means to mainstream gender and religion...
Islam and the Secular State
Disentangling Islam and the post-colonial state
by Joel S. Migdal...of them won the American Political Science Association’s prestigious Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation on religion and politics: Ahmet Kuru’s “Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United...
The politics of religious freedom
Beyond establishment
by Lori G. Beaman...agnostics, humanists, and the indifferent. The UK provides perhaps the best example of this, although the situation there is informed by historical and global confluences and tensions over who has...
here & there
Religion and development in Africa
by Jessica Polebaum...to social interventions, but there is potential for religion and faith communities to play a deeper transformative role in upgrading or changing ineffective social/value systems; enhancing local best practice and...
The politics of religious freedom
The power of pluralist thinking
by Courtney Bender...was an era of many things—the Beats, the Cold War, and bestsellers like Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking. Peale, a psychologist and Christian minister, boldly proclaimed that...
Aggressive prayers, curses, and maledictions
Curses, foiled again and again
by Matt Tomlinson...much as his theory of repetition. For Kierkegaard, repetition is “recollection forward,” the remaking of an event. Perhaps the best description of Kierkegaardian repetition comes not from Kierkegaard himself but...
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees
Before Christian nationalism: Syncretic civic moralism, the Supreme Court, and the formation of young Americans