“Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers” by Charles McCrary

Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers by Charles McCrary The following material is excerpted and lightly adapted from the introduction and eighth chapter of Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (Chicago 2022). In 2020, legislators in Iowa introduced a bill that would define the phrase “bona fide religious purpose,” from the state’s 1965

“Limiting Oppression: Duress and Unconscionability in Islamic Law” by Rabea Benhalim

Photo of Manhattan by wiggijo on Pixabay (CC0) A virtual conference sponsored by Canopy Forum of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory (CSLR) featuring scholars, experts and practitioners on the topic of religious arbitration. View the full video and browse all essays here. “Limiting Oppression: Duress and Unconscionability in Islamic Law”

“Proposal for a Muslim American Alternate Dispute Resolution and Mediation Center” by Abed Awad and Lee Ann Bambach

Photo of Manhattan by wiggijo on Pixabay (CC0) A virtual conference sponsored by Canopy Forum of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory (CSLR) featuring scholars, experts and practitioners on the topic of religious arbitration. View the full video and browse all essays here. “Proposal for a Muslim American Alternate Dispute Resolution

“Secular Law and Equity in Beth Din Decisions” by Rabbi Shlomo Weissmann

Photo of Manhattan by wiggijo on Pixabay (CC0) A virtual conference sponsored by Canopy Forum of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory (CSLR) featuring scholars, experts and practitioners on the topic of religious arbitration. View the full video and browse all essays here. “Secular Law and Equity in Beth Din Decisions”

“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s religious liberty opinions won’t bother most American Jews” by Michael Helfand

US Supreme Court Building by Mark Thomas on Pixabay. This article first appeared in the Forward, the nation’s leading Jewish news organization. Sign up here to get the Forward’s newsletters in your inbox.  President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill Justice Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court. The nomination is no doubt

“The U.S. Role in Combating Global Islamophobia” by Engy Abdelkader

Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash. Last December, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Combating International Islamophobia Act. The bill creates a new position – a Special Envoy – within the U.S. State Department. The envoy would monitor Islamophobia globally.  While the House passed companion legislation around

“Harold J. Berman on the Revitalization of Criminal Law and Religion” by Peter Wosnik

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Harold J. Berman on the Revitalization of Criminal Law and Religion” Peter Wosnik The age we live in can be defined in part by its skepticism: skepticism of our national history, of our traditions, of our institutions. Commentators from various ideological persuasions have bemoaned the collapse of important

“Guiding Christians to the Best Conciliation Process and Preparing Them to Participate Well in It” by Candace McCune

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“The Russian Orthodox Church’s Empire of Media” by Jacob Lassin

Picture of a Russian Orthodox Church (CCO 1.0) This article is part of our “Russia/Ukraine: Law and Religion Perspectives” series. If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has strained the attempts of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to maintain control and influence over its far-flung

“Reversing Course on Conciliation Clauses” by Ken Sande

Photo of Manhattan by wiggijo on Pixabay (CC0) A virtual conference sponsored by Canopy Forum of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory (CSLR) featuring scholars, experts and practitioners on the topic of religious arbitration. View the full video and browse all essays here. “Reversing Course on Conciliation Clauses” Ken Sande Although