Although 19.3 million people reported a Christian affiliation in the 2021 Canadian census (representing just over half of the Canadian…
Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”
human rights
The Protestant Reformation and human rights
When we think of the Christian origins of human rights, we might keep this in mind: What we regard as…
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: An introduction
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution traces the origins of the European human rights system from the Hague peace conferences before…
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…
Civility, toleration, and “human rights as empathy”
As part of her argument in favor of mere civility, Bejan decisively rejects contemporary “civilitarian” claims that mutual respect and…
Writing religion for the IPSP
Can we hope for a better society? That is the animating question behind an ambitious project, the International Panel on Social…
Call for Comments: Writing religion for the IPSP
Can we hope for a better society? That is the animating question behind an ambitious project, the International Panel on…
The uncertainty principles of Heisenberg and Hurd
In the late 1920s, the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a series of scientific papers proposing that the universe could…
CFP: Putting Truth in the Second Place: On Compromise, Religion and Politics
As part of the COMPROMISE research project at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen will host an international…
Engaging the R word
As it promises on the dust jacket, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s Beyond Religious Freedom delivers a critique of the politics of promoting…