Muslims played a crucial role in determining the full extent of religious liberty in the early history of the United…
Muslim fears and Muslim rights
history
The American tradition of tolerance and free speech
Much has happened since Denise Spellberg’s Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an came out in 2013. When I first read it, I treasured…
God in the Enlightenment
In a speech before the Brexit vote, Boris Johnson offered a controversial historical pedigree for his campaign to leave the…
The breaking-in of the gods
In the early pages of my recently published book, History and Presence (Belknap Harvard 2016), I describe something that happened…
On inclusion
In a recent piece in The New York Times’ column The Stone, philosophers Jay L. Garfield and Bryan W. Van…
Secularization histories as cultural-political programs
In a The Immanent Frame post on buffered selves, Charles Taylor commented that “The process of disenchantment, involving a change…
Religious freedom, past and future
For those of us who have been following the Politics of Religious Freedom project on this website and elsewhere, Beyond…
Christianity and human rights at Religion Dispatches
As part of a joint project, Religion Dispatches contributing editor Austin Dacey has written a series of posts on The Immanent Frame's recent…
Cosmology and the environment
Can—and should—a scientific account of the universe function as a global myth? If so, what is the likely impact of…
All churches have heretics: On Catholicism, human rights, and the advantages of history for life
In the years since Samuel Moyn’s essay on Jacques Maritain, personalism, and human rights appeared, he has overseen a transformation…