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“Freedom of Conscience and Religion in the Americas: Following OAS General Assembly Resolutions to Promote Pluralism and Strengthen Communities” by Emily Cole

Feb 19, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesCole, Emily, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Indigenous Religious Traditions, Latin America (Geography), Religious Freedom

The “Temple of the Sun” of Ingapirca, Ecuador by Bernard Gagnon (CC BY-SA 3.0) 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. See other essays in this series here. As Latin America and the Caribbean face increasing challenges related to…

“’No Idols In Our Town’: Competing for Religious Space in Kisumu, Kenya” by Esha Faki Mwinyihaji

Feb 14, 2025Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), Constitutional Law, Mwinyihaji, Esha Faki, Religious Freedom, Sikhism

Photo of Kisumu Municipal Hall by (WT-fr) Omondi (CC BY-SA 3.0) Kisumu is a cosmopolitan city that lies on the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya. The city is inhabited by the majority Luo ethnic group and other Kenyan ethnic groups as well as Arabs and Asians East Africa who work in the city…

“What Might Make Life Better?: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies” by John Witte, Jr.

Feb 12, 2025Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Ethics, February 2025, International Law, Witte Jr., John

What Might Make Life Better?: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic SocietiesJohn Witte, Jr. This essay is drawn from the fourth chapter of Michael Welker and John Witte, Jr.’s recently published book, What Might Make Life Better?: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values…

“Querying “No Religion”: State, Society and Spirituality in Australia” by Anna Halafoff, Andrew Singleton, & Elenie Poulos

Feb 6, 2025Canopy ForumSeries“Other”, February 2025, Halafoff, Anna, Poulos, Elenie, Secularism, Singleton, Andrew

Photo of the State Library of South Australia by Vlad Kutepov on Unsplash The following essays are reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal, Australian Journal of Law and Religion, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Read more essays here. You can also read this essay and others in the…

“The Push Away From Religion and the Pull Toward Secularity: The Rise of the Nones in the US” by Jesse M. Smith and Ryan T. Cragun

Feb 4, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesCragun, Ryan T., February 2024, Oceania (Geography), Secularism, Smith, Jesse M.

Image by Michael Kastelic from Pixabay. The following essays are reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal, Australian Journal of Law and Religion, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Read more essays here. You can also read this essay and others in the latest volume of the AJLR (Volume 5)…

“The 2021 Australian “Mark ‘No Religion’” Campaign” by Rhys Gower and Adam Possamai

Jan 30, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesFebruary 2025, Gower, Rhys, Oceania (Geography), Possamai, Adam, Religion and State

Image by Horst Müller from Pixabay. The following essays are reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal, Australian Journal of Law and Religion, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Read more essays here. You can also read this essay and others in the latest volume of the AJLR (Volume 5)…

A Brief Rejoinder to Movsesian on “The New Thoreaus” by Jeremy Patrick

Jan 28, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesJanuary 2025, Patrick, Jeremy, Politics, Religious Freedom

Saint Mary Magdalene Church of Albi, France by Krzysztof Golik (CC BY-SA 2.0). The following essays are reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal, Australian Journal of Law and Religion, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Read more essays here. You can also read this essay and others in the…

“Limited Dominion in Early Modern Political Theologies” by Elisabeth Rain Kincaid and Matthew P. Cavedon

Jan 23, 2025Canopy ForumEssaysCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, History, Kincaid, Elisabeth Rain, Religious Law and Legal Systems

Image by David Vives from Pixabay. American politics have taken increasingly surprising turns in recent years. One of the more surprising of these has been the recovery of a nineteenth-century Catholic political theory known as integralism. Its proponents reject secular governance and free institutions (lower-case “l” liberalism) in favor of “political rule that must order…

“Interreligious Education within the Framework of Colombia’s Public Policy on Religious Freedom and Worship” by Camila A. Sánchez Sandoval

Jan 21, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesJanuary 2025, Latin America (Geography), Politics, Religious Freedom, Sánchez, Camila

Nevado del Ruiz from Manizales, Colombia by Sebastian Jiménez (CC BY-SA 2.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. This essay is part of the “Masking Religious Freedom Violations” symposium organized by Canopy Forum and the IIRF. The following sections present the proposed and…

“Secularity, Dignity, and Human Rights: A Review of Human Rights in a Divided World by David Hollenbach, S.J.” by David Little

Jan 16, 2025Canopy ForumEssaysCatholicism, Europe (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, January 2025, Little, David

View from the Arc de Triomphe in France by Pierre Blaché (CC0 1.0.) In a definitive study of the origins, drafting, and intent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Johannes Morsink calls attention to a deep, widespread division of opinion within religious communities toward human rights (285). He points out that representatives of most…