As the final installment of the Fall 2018 book forum on The House of Government, forum co-curators Sonja Luehrmann and…
A conversation with Yuri Slezkine
definition of religion
No. Religion is not the common denominator…
Religion is not an explanation for what happened in Tennessee that weekend. Religion in general is never an explanation—except for…
Whose religion? What freedom?
Religious freedom has become an international concept: As the scope of the recently concluded Politics of Religious Freedom project attests…
New report on religion and international relations
A working group on "international relations and religion," convened by Michael Desch and Daniel Philpott, recently released released a detailed report.
Colonialism’s religious domain
Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
Is religion free?
To this stimulating and learned series of posts I cannot add much about the genealogy of religious freedom or its…
Beyond establishment
Religious freedom and religious establishment have come to mean many things to many people. This is, in part, because of…
Traditional but not religious
The first thing that strikes you when looking at Frequencies is the scope of the project and the breadth of…
Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age
I want to start with a paradox. In the secular age, as Charles Taylor has amply illustrated, religious belief no…
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
If you had the opportunity to start from scratch, without the burden of a permanent constitution or an entrenched legal…