To this stimulating and learned series of posts I cannot add much about the genealogy of religious freedom or its…
Is religion free?
Christianity
Intolerance in Indonesia
Last week at The New York Times, human rights advocate Benedict Rogers wrote an op-ed piece on the state of religious relations in…
West’s witness
For New York Magazine, Lisa Miller profiles Cornel West, surveying the course of his academic career, personal life, and variety…
Looking at religiosity and the Bible Belt
Richard Florida follows up on what exactly the recent Gallup poll on differences in religiosity by state tells us about…
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
If you had the opportunity to start from scratch, without the burden of a permanent constitution or an entrenched legal…
Harmful prayer?
On April 2nd, Dallas District Court Judge Martin Hoffman ruled that it is legal to pray for God to harm…
Christian genealogies of religious freedom
As a historian of religion, much of my recent work has focused on tracing the genealogy of what we call…
Rising alternatives to organized religion
In a recent issue of TIME, Amy Sullivan writes of a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion &…
Cultural models and Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…
Decoding religious freedom claims
Molly Worthen, in the New York Times' Campaign Stops blog, considers the undertones of recent conservative claims regarding the Obama…