One aspect of recent developments in the religious clause jurisprudence you describe leaves me puzzled, and I wonder if you…
law and religion
Why not just abolish the religion clauses?
“What is a church in the mind of a secular American today?” “How does US law imagine religion?” and “Where…
Imagining community
I was so glad for a book that systematically discarded the American “separation of church and state” paradigm, which despite…
Jurisdictions of the church
Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even…
An American political theology?
One question I have been thinking about is whether contested political theologies can coexist with collective governance, which would have…
Church State Corporation—An introduction
Following this introduction, five dialogues will be published in which Sullivan was paired with another scholar to discuss Church State…
Social drama, universalisms’ political violence, and transnational law
In a perhaps somewhat contrapuntal response to the provocation to see the broader world differently than we may otherwise, as…
President Trump visits St. John’s Church
The important story here is not about the president’s religion. Indeed, talk of the church is in many ways a…
Constituting Religion—A reply
From the start, this project was both exhilarating and humbling because the co-constitutive dynamics of law, religion, politics, and society…
The religion trap
There is a trap in the study of religion and politics. All traditions are equally susceptible to it, but as…