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Olivier Roy on “The Closing of the Right’s Mind”
The distinguished sociologist of religion, Olivier Roy (author of a very fine book called Holy Ignorance), has an interesting op-ed in the New York Times today entitled, “The Closing of the Right’s...
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Was Madison Right? Shiffrin on DeGirolami on Roy
The eminent First Amendment scholar (and my friend) Steve Shiffrin has a smart post disagreeing with my own criticisms of Olivier Roy’s column a few days ago concerning the European political right and...
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The Connection of Separationism and Limited Government
In rereading a wonderful piece by Professor Michael McConnell about Edmund Burke’s view of the relationship between an established religion and a regime of toleration of religion, I came across this...
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Proust, “The Death of Cathedrals”
I am late in posting a notice for this wonderful short piece by Marcel Proust (yes, that one), The Death of Cathedrals, first published in Le Figaro in 1904 and translated for the first time into...
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Now Comes the “Museum of the Bible”
This story reports on the arrival in Washington, D.C. of a new museum, the “Museum of the Bible,” whose collection will include “pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a Gilgamesh tablet, Elvis Presley’s...
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“The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty” (eds. Schwartzman, Flanders, &...
In December, the Oxford University Press will release “The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty,” edited by Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia School of Law), Chad Flanders (St. Louis University...
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“Churches and States” (Hryn, ed.)
In July, Harvard University Press will release “Churches and States: Studies on the History of Christianity in Ukraine,” edited by Halyna Hryn. The publisher’s description follows: This book collects...
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Some important law-and-religion stories from around the web: The Iraqi military says it will soon oust ISIS from Mosul, the organization’s last remaining stronghold in Iraq, even as ISIS began using...
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Bebbington, “Baptists through the Centuries” (2d ed.)
For students of church-and-state in America, the Baptists loom very large. Together with Enlightenment figures like Madison and Jefferson, the Baptists had a profound influence in the early Republic as...
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Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web: The Supreme Court granted certiorari in a pair of cases involving the scope of the “ministerial exception”—that is, to what...
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