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“Religious Diplomacy in the Organization of American States: Challenges for the Promotion of Religious Freedom in the Americas” by Marcela A. Bordón Lugo

Nov 15, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesBordón Lugo, Marcela A., Interfaith, Latin America (Geography), November 2024, Religious Freedom

Interfaith Harmony at the Department of World Religions and Culture by Monir Uddin Jowel (CC BY-SA 4.0) The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho en Sociedad, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Their issue 18(2) features full length articles in Spanish and English. Read Lugo’s long-form…

“The Right, Edmund Burke, and Family Policy: Misappropriations of the “Little Platoon”” by Madeleine Armstrong

Nov 13, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesarmstrong, Christianity, Europe (Geography), Family Law, Madeleine, November 2024, Politics

Oil painting portrait of Edmund Burke by James Barry (Public Domain) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. At the annual gala of The American Conservative magazine in Washington,…

“The Rise of the Christian Right in Europe” By Gionathan Lo Mascolo and Kristina Stoeckl

Nov 6, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Europe (Geography), Lo Mascolo, Gionathan, Politics, Stoeckl, Kristina

Viktor Orbán, Hungary by Elekes Andor (CC BY-SA 4.0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. In recent decades, Europe has witnessed the emergence of the Christian Right as…

“A Christian Constitutional Challenge – Hungary’s Fundamental Law” by Stephen Dolan

Nov 4, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Dolan, Stephen, Europe (Geography), November 2024, Politics

Evangelical Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Elisabeth Church in Hungary by Marcin Szala (CC BY-SA 4.0). This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Despite its relative size…

“Religious Belief as an Existential Threat: How Russia Victimizes Religious Minorities in Russia and in the Occupied Territories of Ukraine” by Dr. Kyriaki Topidi

Nov 2, 2024Canopy ForumEssays, SeriesChristianity, Constitutional Law, Human Rights / Civil Rights, November 2024, Topidi, Kyriaki

“Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” by Ilya Repin (CC0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Russia counts more than 200 ethnic groups among its more than 140 million…

“Politics Of Identity And Exclusion: Italy’s Matteo Salvini And The Rise Of Pan-European Christian Nationalism” by Thomas Jared Farmer

Nov 1, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Europe (Geography), Farmer, Thomas Jared, October 2024, Politics

Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, Wikimedia Commons (Attribution: Presidency of the Italian Republic). This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Rightwing Politics in Italy: From Christian Democracy…

Gender, Russian Orthodoxy, and the Invention of “Traditional” Values by Regina Elsner

Oct 31, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysAsia (Geography), Christianity, Elsner, Regina, October 2024, Sex and Gender

Russian Orthodox Church, Rocklea, Russia by Bert Knot (CC 2.0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. For many years, Russia has been known as one of the main…

“Fraternity: The Long Lost Companion of Liberty and Equality in the United States” by Marguerite Hattouni Spencer

Oct 30, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysEurope (Geography), October 2024, Politics, Spencer, Marguerite

Image by Filip Filipović from Pixabay Our nation is at a crossroads. In light of our calcifying divisiveness in the United States of America, we are worried that our lively constitutional experiment may fail. To get our bearings, it might be helpful to reflect back on what the “land of the free” stands for and…

CPAC and NatCon: Uniting a Transnational Radical Right by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams

Oct 25, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesAbrahamsen, Rita, Christianity, Europe (Geography), October 2024, Politics, Williams, Michael

Museum in Hungary by Jules Verne (CC BY 3.0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism, and its impact on politics, the rule of law, and religious freedom. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. “An international coalition of national forces has been established.” This triumphant statement issued…

“Good Vibes Only: The “Aloha Spirit” in Hawaiʻi Constitutional Interpretation” by Aaron Walayat

Oct 24, 2024Canopy ForumEssays“Other”, Constitutional Law, October 2024, Political Philosophy, Walayat, Aaron J.

Image by Talpa from Pixabay In 2017, Christopher Wilson, a resident of Maui, Hawaiʻi, was charged by the state for possession of an unregistered pistol, a violation of state statute. He moved to dismiss the charges, arguing that the statutes unconstitutionally infringed on his right to keep and bear arms under both the Hawaiʻi Constitution…