...secularism in the United States and around the world. He studied and taught in Denmark, one of the world’s most secular countries, and has written several books about atheism. Studying...
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Round-up: the Cordoba House controversy
by Charles Gelman...more to fight terrorism every day than Williams, Lazio or Palin will accomplish in their combined lifetimes. Finally, the constitutional guarantees of freedom, including freedom of worship, were not suspended...
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CFP and fellowship opportunities
by Wei Zhu...the specific character of Nordic Protestant tradition, with a focus on three Nordic countries: Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Theories from Cultural studies on “lieux de mémoire” (Erinnerungsorte) will serve as...
Deathless questions and other interviews
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
by Joseph Blankholm...religious leaders to grant authority to elected officials, and that state authorities must not only guarantee freedom of private religious worship but allow democratic participation in civil and political society,...
The politics of national identity
A new “Christianist” secularism in Europe
by Rogers Brubaker...values of freedom of expression, personal autonomy, even gender equality, and, especially in the Netherlands, tolerance of homosexuality. In this perspective, it would seem, the West is defined not by...
Resurrecting Democracy
Revitalizing the power of the great in-between
by Michael Allen GillespieIn his thoughtful The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama argues that there are three pillars of order that are necessary for the stability of states such as Denmark, Sweden,...
Mere Civility
Seinfeld, Roger Williams, and religious toleration
by Samuel Stabler...(that is free speech joined with the freedom of religion) for reasons that are “more than just prudential.” Broadly, I agree with Bejan that Williams’s embrace of evangelism and his...
Essays
Tunisia’s election: counter-revolution or democratic transition?
by Alfred Stepan...not to exclude a large group of citizens from participating in the first free elections, the Assembly declared that former Ben Ali party members and/or supporters were free to form...
Religious freedom in the United States
The impossibility of religious freedom
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
...heart of all religious freedom laws. The positions of both liberals and conservatives are affected by this rottenness but I speak here to liberals. You cannot both celebrate religious freedom...
