As it promises on the dust jacket, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s Beyond Religious Freedom delivers a critique of the politics of promoting…
Helge Årsheim
Helge Årsheim is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. Årsheim's work is primarily dedicated to the examination of interconnections between law and religion, combining theoretical, historical and empirical approaches to this topic. He defended his PhD dissertation on the concept of religion at four UN human rights committees in 2015. Årsheim is currently involved in several research projects on law and religion, and is also part of the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief, where he has worked in particular with the politicization of the freedom of religion or belief.
Latest posts
Whose religion? What freedom?
December 17, 2013
Religious freedom has become an international concept: As the scope of the recently concluded Politics of Religious Freedom project attests…
Engaging religion at the Department of State
July 30, 2013
This past week, the US Department of State announced the creation of a new office that “will focus on engagement with…