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PROJECT PUBLICATIONS
Christians, Muslims and Jesus
May 28, 2013
In Christians, Muslims and Jesus, Mona Siddiqui provides a scholarly and detailed comparative treatment of the role Jesus plays in Christianity and...
Religious Freedom, Democratization, and Economic Development
April 29, 2013
Based on an extensive survey of relevant scholarly literature in economics, political science, sociology and other disciplines, in this paper...
The Routledge Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations
December 18, 2012
Muslim-Christian understanding has grown to be one of the largest concerns for religious freedom and dialogue in recent years. An understanding of...
Genealogías de la secularización
December 1, 2012
Genealogías de la secularización [Genealogies of Secularization] by José Casanova looks primarily at developing and analyzing the different...
Is Religious Freedom Special?
November 20, 2012 In this article, which appeared in the Theos report Law and Religion, Roger Trigg argues for the uniqueness of religious freedom, over against...Martyrdom with a Message: How Persecuted Christians Witness to Religious Freedom
November 16, 2012
RFP associate director Timothy Shah joined scholars and religious leaders for a major conference on Christian martyrdom sponsored by the Institute...
God's Century reviewed by Michael Emerson in Contemporary Sociology
November 2, 2012
Noted sociologist Michael Emerson reviews God's Century by RFP associate director Timothy Shah and associate scholars Monica Toft and Dan Philpott...
Religious Freedom and National Security
October 3, 2012
Considering that a strong correlation has existed between religious persecution and national security both in recent years and throughout the...
Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah's Theory of Religious Evolution
October 1, 2012
In "Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah's Theory of Religious Evolution" Casanova addresses and critiques Robert Bellah's...
Of Down Syndrome and Violence: Religious Freedom and US Foreign Policy
September 13, 2012
RFP Director Tom Farr spoke at a conference on "International Religious Freedom: An Imperative for Peace and the Common Good," held at the Catholic...
The Good Muslim: Reflections on Classical Islamic Law and Theology
September 1, 2012
In The Good Muslim: Reflections on Classical Islamic Law and Theology, RFP Scholar Mona Siddiqui explores key themes in Islamic law and theology...
Erkundungen des Postsäkularen. Rolle und Bedeutung der Religion in Europa
July 20, 2012
In this German-language article Jose Casanova compares and contrasts the American and European experience with secularization and the different...
Religious Freedom Under the Gun
July 9, 2012
In his article in The Weekly Standard, RFP Director Thomas Farr argues that the Obama Administration has neglected the key foreign policy issue of...
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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...
The Church and the Global Crisis of Religious Liberty
Thomas Farr
June 13, 2012
Titled "The Church and the Global Crisis of Religious Liberty," RFP Director Tom Farr delivered remarks to the Annual Conference of Catholic Bishops, Atlanta, on June 13, 2012. Prof. Farr was tasked with providing "an overview of challenges to religious freedom around the world" to place the important discussion in context for the USCCB.
Excerpt: "What is new, and profoundly troubling, is that we are seeing today the rejection of religious freedom not simply by authoritarian regimes in places like China, Saudi Arabia and Iran, but by democratic majorities in places like Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Western Europe. These majorities seem unwilling to embrace the core of religious freedom, which is full equality under the law in private and in public matters for all religious individuals and institutions."