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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. Their issue 19(1) features full length articles in Spanish and English. Read Cole’s long-form essay on Freedom of Conscience and…

“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…

“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…

“Discrimination After Death: The Afterlives of Muslims in Spain” by Paula M. Arana Barbier

Jan 14, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesArana Barbier, Paula M., Europe (Geography), Islam, January 2025, Religious Freedom

Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Spain. Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. Despite common assumptions, our social and political lives do not simply end once we die; the idea of an afterlife, although mainly theological, can also…

“The Mask Askew: How the Turkish Protestant Movement Recognized and Surmounted Religious Discrimination” by James Bultema

Jan 8, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesBultema, James, Christianity, Europe (Geography), January 2025, Religious Freedom

Istanbul Skyline via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. One of the most grievous periods of Christian history in the land of Turkey spanned much of the 20th century. One episode was the Istanbul pogrom of September 6-7, 1955,…

“Religious Freedom Research: The Impediment of Two Words” by James C. Wallace

Jan 6, 2025Canopy ForumSeriesEurope (Geography), January 2025, Religious Freedom, Wallace, James

Lake Geneva by Dmitry A. Mottl (CC BY-SA 4.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. The analytic systems employed to identify religious freedom violations often run into a barrier erected by two words – religious freedom. These two words are common jargon in…

“Masked Discrimination Against Vodou and Other African Diaspora Religions” by Danielle Boaz

Dec 20, 2024Canopy ForumSeriesBoaz, Danielle, December 2024, Media and Culture, Religious Freedom

Photo of Ohio, USA by Robert Conklin on Unsplash. This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. How does one protect a faith that most people would not even recognize as a religion? How can religious freedom be guaranteed when the public struggles to separate…