RELATED EVENTS
Policy Consultation on Religious Freedom, Violent Religious Extremism, and Constitutional Reform in Muslim-Majority Countries: Lessons for U.S. Policy Makers
December 7, 2012The Price of Freedom Denied
October 20, 2011Sourcebook Seminar on the Historical Origins of Religious Freedom
April 28, 2011The Cognitive Science of Religion
May 3, 2011Sourcebook Seminar on Religious Freedom and the Struggle against Extremism
September 23, 2011What's So Special About Religious Freedom?
November 17, 2011Standing Seminar: Religion & Human Personhood, Culture, and Society
February 10, 2012Standing Seminar: Religion, Health, and Happiness
December 4, 2011Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
March 1, 2012Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe
April 10, 2012Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
January 31, 2012Equality, Freedom, & Religion
February 13, 2012Religious Freedom and Religious Extremism: Lessons from the Arab Spring
March 16, 2012Religious Freedom and Healthcare Reform
March 22, 2012Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
May 1, 2012Religion & State After the Arab Spring: Devising Ground Rules for a New Era
May 14, 2012Which Model, Whose Liberty?: Differences between the U.S. and European Approaches to Religious Freedom
October 11, 2012Religious Freedom and the HHS Mandate: a Conversation with Representatives Jeff Fortenberry, Diane Black, Ann Marie Buerkle and Dan Lipinski
June 28, 2012Catholic Perspectives on Religious Liberty
September 13, 2012Just and Unjust Peace
September 14, 2012Religious Freedom Past and Future
October 24, 2012Inaugural Symposium: Christianity and Freedom: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
December 14, 2012Rick Warren on Religious Freedom - A Conversation
February 12, 2013Theism and Rationality: A Seminar with Alvin Plantinga and Ernest Sosa
January 7, 2013PROJECT 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...
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...
Peace After Genocide
July 1, 2012
Featured in the June/July 2012 edition of First Things,RFP Scholar Daniel Philpott's article "Peace After Genocide" examines the current paradigm...
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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...
Thomas Farr Reviews The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Farr
September 27, 2011
Reviewing Brian Grim and Roger Finke's book of the same name, Religious Freedom Project Director Thomas Farr agrees with the researchers' thesis that "the price of denying religious freedom is unacceptably high." In their book, Grim and Finke parse worldwide data on religious freedom or lack thereof, concluding that an open, competitionary "religious economies" model of church-state relations is best for promoting tolerance. Farr concurs, drawing an explicit link between "privatization" of religion and incidence of religious persecution.