There is much that could be said about the history of the Catholic Church and its dedication to the defense…
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, JD, PhD, University of Chicago, is Provost Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Religion and the Human at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is also an Affiliated Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law. She studies the intersection of religion and law in the modern period, particularly the phenomenology of modern religion as it is shaped in its encounter with law. Sullivan is the author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, 2005, 2d ed. 2018), Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton, 2009), A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and the Law (Chicago, 2014), and Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law (Chicago, 2020), coauthor of Ekklesia: Three Studies in Church and State (Chicago, 2018), and coeditor of Politics of Religious Freedom (Chicago, 2015).
“The Church”
The last sentence of the Court’s opinion in Hosanna-Tabor announces the dogma that binds the majority opinion. Affirming for the…
Going to law
Last week, in the first week of its October 2011 term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a suit…
Reflections on summer reading
As the start of the fall semester inches closer, we’ve invited a handful of our contributors to reflect on what…
The cheese, the worms, and Major Hasan
What does the academic study of religion have to contribute to public discussions concerning Major Hasan’s religious identity? What do…
Summer reading: Part I
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…
Waking up to still being a faith-based nation
The Bush administration has widely been assumed to have significantly favored evangelical Christian perspectives and organizations in its policies. A…
A cautionary tale?
It would have been enough for Lilla to frame this book as an explanation of the genealogy of bourgeois protestant…