PROJECT LEADERS
Thomas Farr
Thomas F. Farr is Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate...
Timothy Shah
Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center For Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and...
ASSOCIATE SCHOLARS
José Casanova
José Casanova is one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of religion. He is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown...
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she also has...
William Inboden
William Inboden is Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International...
David Novak
David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the...
Daniel Philpott
Daniel Philpott is exploring Catholic and Protestant contributions to democracy from the years 1800-2000 for the Christianity and Freedom Project....
Mona Siddiqui
Mona Siddiqui, OBE is Professor of Islamic and Inter-religious Studies and Assistant Principal for Religion and Society at the University of...
Monica Duffy Toft
Monica Duffy Toft is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Initiative on Religion in...
Roger Trigg
Roger Trigg, of St Cross College, Oxford, is Senior Research Fellow in the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, and a member of both the...
PROJECT STAFF
A.J. Nolte
A.J. Nolte joined the RFP at the beginning of October 2012, after two years as a research assistant at the Center for Complex Operations, National...
Kyle Vander Meulen
Kyle Vander Meulen joined the Berkley Center in January 2011. Before coming to the Center, he completed his master's studies in Divinity at the...
PROJECT NEWS
Tim Shah Featured in Deseret News Story on State Department Religious Freedom Report
May 21, 2013Tom Farr Quoted on Religious Freedom and Extremism by FrontPage Magazine
May 21, 2013Roger Trigg Explores the Links between Philosophy of Religion and Religious Marginalization
May 20, 2013Roger Trigg's Address to the Iona Institute Conference on "What We Owe Christianity"
May 20, 2013Tom Farr's Presentation at the Common Word Conference on April 24
May 20, 2013Article by Roger Trigg Claims Religious Freedom is Not Just Special Pleading
May 2, 2013New Video: Tom Farr Addresses Religious Freedom and Terrorism with EWTN's Raymond Arroyo
April 29, 2013Timothy Shah Presents Paper on Religious Freedom, Democratization, and Economic Development
April 29, 2013Jean Elshtain Named Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress
April 25, 2013Tom Farr Talks with EWTN about Kidnapped Syrian Bishops
April 25, 2013Mona Siddiqui Chosen as Associate Editor of Online Qur'anic Encyclopedia
April 19, 2013The Scotsman reviews Christians, Muslims and Jesus by Mona Siddiqui
April 15, 2013
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May 28, 2013Christians, Muslims and JesusIn Christians, Muslims and Jesus, Mona Siddiqui provides a scholarly and detailed comparative treatment of the role Jesus plays in Christianity and Islam. Describing Jesus as both "bridge" and "barrier" between the two faiths, Siddiqui traces their comparative development of doctrine, focusing on the critical role Jesus played for both. Christians, Muslims and Jesus is a must-read for scholars, interfaith practitioners, and anyone who seeks to understand the common ground and stark divides between Christianity and Islam. |
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April 29, 2013Religious Freedom, Democratization, and Economic DevelopmentBased on an extensive survey of relevant scholarly literature in economics, political science, sociology and other disciplines, in this paper Timothy Shah and Anthony Gill identify concrete ways that religious freedom contributes to economic freedom and prosperity and political freedom and democracy. It is based on an earlier paper Anthony Gill presented to an RFP Experts Seminar at Georgetown in December 2012. Shah presented this paper, co-authored with Gill, at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) in Washington, D.C. on April 13,... |
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December 18, 2012The Routledge Reader in Christian-Muslim RelationsMuslim-Christian understanding has grown to be one of the largest concerns for religious freedom and dialogue in recent years. An understanding of how Islam and Christianity approach each other theologically and politically is essential for understanding the challenges of inter-religious relations. The Routledge Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, edited by RFP scholar Mona Siddiqui, is a vital resource on how Christian and Muslim scholars have influenced the discourse on the changing interfaces between Christianity and Islam. After an in-depth introduction by Mona Siddiqui, the book... |
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December 5, 2012Religious Freedom and Violent Religious Extremism: A Sourcebook of Modern Cases and AnalysisDespite the avowed importance of religious freedom, significant debate arises over its desirability and priority in practice. One area where debate is especially fierce, and consequential for the world is violent religious extremism. The enormous political changes associated with the Arab Spring have made this debate even more relevant in recent years. The Religious Freedom Project designed this sourcebook to assist scholars, students, media, policy experts, and other interested parties in exploring the complex relationship between religious freedom and violent religious extremism. The case... |
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November 16, 2012Martyrdom with a Message: How Persecuted Christians Witness to Religious FreedomRFP associate director Timothy Shah joined scholars and religious leaders for a major conference on Christian martyrdom sponsored by the Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame. In his speech, Shah draws attention to the active witness of persecuted and martyred Christians throughout history and indeed around the world today. |