One of the interesting things about religious nationalisms is their interchangeablity. I remember reading Peter van der Veer’s book, Religious…
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Latest posts
“. . . by law established”: A transatlantic dialogue
One aspect of recent developments in the religious clause jurisprudence you describe leaves me puzzled, and I wonder if you…
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…
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…
human
It is the dream of modern secular law to occupy all of the space of law—as a universal language—that is,…
Mansplaining religion
While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the…
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it? Introduction
This series of essays aims to open up, with respect to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the…