Should the U.S. government employ American civil society to engage religious communities overseas in promotion of a “religious freedom agenda”?…
Government, civil society, and religious freedom
Barack Obama
Thomas Farr on Obama’s religious freedom agenda
At Georgetown/On Faith, Thomas Farr questions the commitment of the Obama administration, and particularly the State Department, to the promotion…
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
The United States is an empire in decline, as well as a nation under enormous economic duress, and civil religion…
“Religious freedom” and its critics
During his landmark address to the world, delivered in Cairo last June, President Obama proposed to open a new era…
From Bush to Obama, the faith-based initiative is still all politics
Late last week, the Brookings Institute convened a day-long conference marking the tenth anniversary of the faith-based initiative. Josh DuBois,…
Fantasies of sovereignty
Montreal [site of the 2009 AAR meetings] was a particularly appropriate site for a return to civil religion. A civic…
Echoes of American civil religion
It is interesting to revisit civil religion discourse in the context of a new time and its discontents, and the…
All used up
There is a question that has been haunting me about our times and our collective condition, specifically in regard to…
Year one in White House faith-based office
Despite critiques that the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships has been relatively quiet recently, Joshua DuBois, the…
Obama urged to skip National Prayer Breakfast
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has urged the President to not attend the National Prayer Breakfast, reports…