In summer 2010, Robert Orsi, Terence McKiernan, and I began a conversation about the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.…
Revisited: Sex abuse and the study of religion
Roman Catholic Church
Camp conviction and the politics of religion: Or, that naked public square’s really a drag
Discussions of religion in public life usually presume two things about religious conviction: it focuses on a set of beliefs…
Hobbesian Catholicism on the rise in Poland?
The right-wing Law and Justice Party victory in the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections has opened a new chapter in…
Christianity and human rights at Religion Dispatches
As part of a joint project, Religion Dispatches contributing editor Austin Dacey has written a series of posts on The Immanent Frame's recent…
Catholics, anti-Semitism, and the human rights swerve
In signature style, Sam Moyn is poised to launch another spectacular provocation with his forthcoming Christian Human Rights. Building on…
The long shadow of Christian politics
It has become a truism to say that Samuel Moyn’s work landed like “a grenade” amid common understandings of postwar…
Border-crossers, the human person, and Catholic communitarianism
It is a delight to be asked to contribute to this forum on Samuel Moyn’s work on Christianity and human…
An unwanted legacy: Christianity and the future of human rights
The conceptual history of human rights has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the last decade. Many of…
Christian human rights—An introduction
Christmas Day, 1942. The outcome of World War II was undecided, but the pope had something new to say. A…
Malediction, exorcism, and evil
It is best to begin by considering the word malediction in the simple sense of speaking evil or evil-saying. The…