"First, I must thank each of the contributors to this forum for their more than merely civil responses to my…
Mere Civility—A reply
religious toleration
Mere Civility—An introduction
At the height of the 2016 American presidential election, a colleague asked whether I was worried that my forthcoming book…
The forgotten story of the Flushing Remonstrance
Walking down Bowne Street in Flushing, Queens, you may see a most interesting sign. “Bowne House; Built in 1661," it…
Pussy Riot’s punk prayer
On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian punk collective called Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the…
Martha Nussbaum on religion, tolerance, and feminism
Recently, David Johnson, Web Editor at the Boston Review, interviewed Martha Nussbaum and discussed her new publication, The New Religious…
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…