I applaud the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ call for the U.S. government to recognize the pivotal role of religion…
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On the role of religion in U.S. foreign policy
Since the release last week of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' detailed and lengthy report (pdf) on the state…
“Good Intentions” alone are not good enough!
As I see it, the issue with “religious freedom” is not whether it should be upheld everywhere, but how and…
Conference: One Year After Cairo
On April 28, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy will hold its eleventh annual conference, "U.S. Relations…
“Religious freedom” and its critics
During his landmark address to the world, delivered in Cairo last June, President Obama proposed to open a new era…
The impossibility of religious freedom?
Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post reports that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, "the federal agency charged…
Colin Dayan: “‘Civilizing’ Haiti”
In the Boston Review, Colin Dayan argues that woefully little has changed since the colonial era with respect to Western…
Afghanistan’s women
At Reuters's Afghan Journal, Golnar Motevalli asks how reintegrating the Taliban might affect the already tenuous position women inhabit in…
Making compassion cool: An interview with Karen Armstrong
A former Catholic nun, Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on comparative religions, including A History of God,…
Civil religion and beyond
Civil religion, on one hand, links the US to the biblical tradition; on the other hand, the moral and political…