RFP within the Knowledge Resources
Christianity Sourcebook
As part of its mission to encourage scholarship in the area of religious freedom, the Religious Freedom Project is producing a series of printed and digital sourcebooks. Each book contains annotated bibliographies of literature and collections of primary documents. This is the digital sourcebook on Christianity and religious freedom; additional books in the series will cover: the origins and development of religious freedom in Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism; religious freedom and violent religious extremism; religious freedom and economic, social, and political development; and the status of religious freedom in the United States and Europe.
Religious Liberty
This collection gathers together key candidate statements on religious freedom from the 2011-12 primary and general election campaigns, addressing America's constitutional heritage and contemporary challenges that arise as faith-based institutions seek to partner with the government to promote the common good. You can also view a grid that juxtaposes the major positions of the major candidates here.
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...
THEMES
Religion as Intrinsic to Human Experience
Recent decades have seen an explosion of academic interest in the anthropological, philosophical, psychological, and biological basis of religious...Historical Origins of Religious Freedom
An adequate understanding of the contemporary significance of religious freedom requires a grasp of its history and institutionalization over time....Religious Freedom in the U.S. and Europe
While the role of religion can be strikingly different on both sides of the Atlantic, American and European societies face similar challenges to...Religious Freedom and Economic, Social, and Political Development
Recent empirical research suggests a positive correlation between levels of religious freedom across countries and measures of economic, social,...Religious Freedom and the Struggle against Extremism
Policy debates about how to combat religious extremism, terrorism, and violence have typically pitted supporters of military and police force...Christianity & Freedom: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
OverviewThe Religious Freedom Project is undertaking a two-year research initiative to explore Christianity’s contributions to the construction...