It is hard to disagree with the main arguments of Abdullahi an-Na'im's impeccable book: a healthy religious life requires a…
A secular state must deliver
law and religion
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
The recent California court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage has elicited a new round of warnings about the threats…
An ideal of conscientious engagement
Many political theorists, pundits and even presidential candidates have advocated some variation on the claim that religious and secular reasons…
Is religion a constitutionally legitimate basis of lawmaking?
The contested question of whether in a liberal democracy religion – religious rationales – may serve as a basis of…
The death of secular democracy in Pakistan?
The first time I met Benazir’s father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, many years ago, I bought a new suit for the…
We are all religious now
“Favoritism for religion,” says Justice Souter, “‘sends the . . . message to . . . nonadherents’ that they are…
The new universalism
There is a sense among those who are watching that the ground is shifting in U.S. constitutional jurisprudence with respect…