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Does Clothing Make the Person: Reflections of the Rights of Public School Employees to Wear Religious Garb in the Workplace By Allan G. Osborne and Charles J. Russo

Jan 21, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesJanuary 2023, Osborne, Allan G., Politics, Religious Freedom, Russo, Charles J.

This article is part of our “Clothed in Religion: Law and Religious Attire/Garb” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Introduction In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Polonius famously muses that “the apparel oft proclaims the man.” Yet, in today’s increasingly religiously diverse (and religiously unaffiliated) American society wherein about 30% are religiously…

Does Religion Speak War; Why Use It As A Means? By Rackel Jackson Agara

Jan 18, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), Jackson Agara, Rackel, January 2023, Religious Freedom

Aso Rock in Abujo, Nigeria by Mike Fisher (CC BY-SA 2.0). “War is the greatest plague that afflicts humanity, it destroys states, it destroys families, and even religion…Any scourge is preferable to it,” observed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many people in the world have used religion to instigate violent conflicts but these religious roots…

“The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition” by John Witte Jr.

Jan 14, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, History, Human Rights / Civil Rights, January 2023, Witte Jr., John

The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal TraditionJohn Witte, Jr. The following is excerpted from John Witte, Jr.’s The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition, out now from Cambridge University Press. Read Nicholas Wolterstorff’s review of the book here. For the past…

“The Polish Contribution to the Global Legal Culture Foreword” by John Witte, Jr.

Jan 13, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, History, January 2023, Politics, Witte Jr., John

The Polish Contribution to the Global Legal CultureJohn Witte, Jr. The following is excerpted from Law and Christianity in Poland: The Legacy of the Great Jurists, edited by Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier and Rafael Domingo and out now from Routledge. This volume is another signature title in the book series on “Great Christian Jurists in…

“Minorities and Religious Attire in Europe: The Data of The Atlas of Religious or Belief Minority Rights” by Silvio Ferrari

Jan 9, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesEurope (Geography), Ferrari, Silvio, January 2023, Religious Freedom

This article is part of our “Clothed in Religion: Law and Religious Attire/Garb” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The issue of religious attire is like a strong wind that suddenly arose some 20 years ago and blew across Europe for a long time. Now that the force of…

“Together” by Almas Shaikh

Jan 5, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysJanuary 2023, Media and Culture, Religious Freedom, Shaikh, Almas

“Together” Almas Shaikh Medium: Water and Acrylic Colors on a 300 GSM PaperDate: March 2022Artist’s Note: I painted this in early March while awaiting the verdict in the Hijab ban case we had argued before the Karnataka High Court. The court upheld the ban and the same was later challenged in the Supreme Court. This…

“The Rights of Women” by Erika Bachiochi

Jan 3, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsBachiochi, Erika, Christianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, January 2023, Philosophy

The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost VisionErika Bachiochi This excerpt is from the first chapter of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision and was published by the University of Notre Dame Press (2021). In 1785, John Adams, his wife, Abigail, and their two eldest children departed from his diplomatic post in Paris…

“Sovereigns, Exceptions, and ‘Shadow Dockets’: Law, Religion, and States of Emergency” by M. Christian Green

Dec 14, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Constitutional Law, December 2022, Green, M. Christian, Healthcare, History, Politics, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Picture by Adam Kring on Unsplash. “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1921) “By nonetheless granting relief, the Court goes astray. . . . That renders the Court’s emergency docket not for emergencies at all.”Justice Elena Kagan, Louisiana v. American Rivers (2022) Hitler’s Lawyer About a decade ago, the name…

“Acarajé, Religious Attire, and Conflict in Brazil” by Danielle Boaz

Dec 12, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesBoaz, Danielle, December 2022, History, Indigenous Religious Traditions, Latin America (Geography), Media and Culture

Baianas de Acarajé / October 18, 2007 / Wikimedia Commons This article is part of our “Clothed in Religion: Law and Religious Attire/Garb” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The government of Brazil has widely recognized and protected acarajé — a food that originates from Candomblé (an Afro-Brazilian religion), as…

“Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora” by Danielle Boaz

Dec 9, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsBoaz, Danielle, December 2022, History, Indigenous Religious Traditions, Race and Ethnicity, Religious Freedom, Social Sciences

Banning Black Gods:Law and Religions of the African Diaspora Danielle Boaz This excerpt is adapted from Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora and was recently published by Penn State University Press (2021). Introduction In 2003, Toronto police officers suspected that two Jamaican-Canadian brothers were involved in a series of murders that plagued…

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