...truth, sovereignty, itself a paradigm of transcendence and domination, makes the free decision impossible for the vast majority of people. The free decision and the free act cannot be separated...
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Rethinking secularism
“The Church”
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...Chief Justice declares that “(t)he church must be free to choose those who will guide it on its way.” Not “persons” must be free to choose their own ministers, but...
Political Theology
Paul Kahn’s roots
by Nancy Levene...character of our political experience as authentically free.” Free, he tells us, like Picasso was free. Free, he writes, somewhat more disturbingly, like Abraham was free. And here is the...
Sociology of religion
Toward a new sociology of religion
by Peggy Levitt, Courtney Bender, David Smilde and Wendy Cadge...diplomacy, tax codes, land-use and zoning regulations, and state licensing boards) firmly challenges the rosy vision of American religion as thriving within a marketplace composed of free actors. Indeed, moving...
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an 
by
Christine Baker
The American tradition of tolerance and free speech
by
Christine Baker
...our history and today. Recently, paralleling the dramatic increase in hate crimes nationwide, we have also begun a national debate about free speech and its limits. Conservative students who felt...
Aggressive prayers, curses, and maledictions
Charismatic malediction, or martyrdom in antebellum America
by Caleb Smith...codes), animated by a double faith in God and in something called posterity. The self-styled martyrs appealed from the courts of law not only to the Almighty but also to...
Book introductions
Religion and populism
by Nadia Marzouki, Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell...the Front National in France, the Lega Nord in Italy, the Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP; Swiss People’s Party), the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ; Austrian Freedom Party), the United Kingdom Independence Party...
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church 
by
Kathryn Lofton
Revisited: Sex abuse and the study of religion
by
Kathryn Lofton
...including individuals who worked on the history of childhood and parenthood as well as legal experts on religious freedom, family law, and feminist jurisprudence. Among us were philosophers and anthropologists,...