Berkley Center

Nicholas Fedyk discusses the "velvet-gloved" religious persecution in Russia, as the Kremlin work within the letter of the law and exaggerate fears of minority religious groups, and the potential of Ukraine to similarly subject foreign churches to government regulation.

Paul Gutacker discusses church-state relations in the context of the historical work of William Findley, who argued that the U.S. Constitution was justified by the history of Christianity. He concludes that Findley's narration of Christian history reveals a source for American exceptionalism.

This summer, the Religious Freedom Research Project funded five doctoral students exploring the sources, development, and consequences of religious freedom. The Berkley Forum features their reports.