I was recently asked to speak about the current state of US religious freedom law. I guess it somehow seemed…
Teaching religion: Refusing the Schempp myth of origins
church and state
Hobbesian Catholicism on the rise in Poland?
The right-wing Law and Justice Party victory in the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections has opened a new chapter in…
Beyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
Last summer I read All Can Be Saved by the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, Stuart Schwartz. It’s a…
Secularism at home and abroad
The stark divide between the sacred and the profane engendered by the Great Separation between religion and politics in the…
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
CFP: Freedom of (and from) Religion
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with support from the Cordano Endowment in Catholic Studies,…
What kind of territory? On public religion and space in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died shortly before the 2012 Meskel festival, the Finding of the True Cross—one of the…
Churches and public schools
On April 3rd, 2014, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld (by overturning the judgment of…
Searching for the church of Islam
Amid the conflict currently underway in Egypt—between state authorities led by the military-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood and their…
Gazing into the future
The efflorescence of religious life in China over the past thirty-some years has been truly amazing. In the rural areas…