Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King May 1 – May 11, 2017, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.…
Jeffrey Stout to give Gifford Lectures
religious freedom
A tale of two burdens
In his landmark essay, Nomos and Narrative, the late legal scholar Robert Cover wrote about the jurispathic function of…
Regulating symbols: The burkini and niqab bans in France
Last month, the image of three police officers standing over a woman on the beach in Nice, supervising the removal…
Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power
The United States is unique among nations in claiming a heritage of religious freedom and a mission to spread it…
Religion and politics beyond religious freedom
I would like to thank each of the contributors to this series for their generous engagement with my book, Beyond…
Rethinking religion in a political scientific wilderness
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion makes an extremely important and timely contribution to a conversation that…
Law as religion
Ben Berger’s book Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a work of great insight. I found…
Law’s Religion—An introduction
In Theory From the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa, Jean and John Comaroff consider the juridification of…
Paradoxes of international religious freedom
It has been almost twenty years since the US Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), which was signed…
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…