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“When the State Tells You How to Run Your Church Service: Analyzing Coronavirus Guidance Documents on Religious Services” by Dwight Newman

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Newman, Dwight, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

Photo of cells by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Public Domain) A virtual conference organized in partnership with Brigham Young University Law School, Emory University Law School, Notre Dame Law School, St. John’s University School of Law, and the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. View the full video and browse all essays here.…

“Commemorating Lives Lost in Times of Pandemic and Protest” by Angela C. Carmella

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesCarmella, Angela C., Ethics, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Religious Liberty in a Pandemic: Constitutional Challenges to Mass Gathering Bans” by Caroline Mala Corbin

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Corbin, Caroline Mala, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Hands-Off Religion in the Early Months of COVID-19” by Samuel J. Levine

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Levine, Samuel J., October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Religious Exceptions to COVID Vaccine Mandates” by Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesColeman, Doriane Lambelet, Ethics, Health Law, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Ancestor Worship, Living Trees, and Free Exercise in the Australian Constitution” by Paul T. Babie

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesBabie, Paul T., Constitutional Law, Indigenous Religious Traditions, Oceania (Geography), October 2020, Religious Freedom

Photo by Stephan Müller on Pexels This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The Australian Constitution, an Act of the Imperial United Kingdom Parliament which came into force in 1901, contains a seemingly comprehensive protection for religious freedom,…

“The Beauty of Disobedience” by Stephen S. Bush

Sep 30, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBush, Stephen, Ethics, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Teemu Paananen on Unsplash Political Beauty On June 27, 2015, ten days after a white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, Bree Newsome Bass began pulling herself up a thirty-foot tall flag pole at the South Carolina State Capitol. With the…

“REVIEW: The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty” by Breidenbach and Anderson

Sep 24, 2020Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Constitutional Law, Philosophy, Religious Freedom, September 2020, Weinberger, Lael

The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty edited by Michael D. Breidenbach and Owen Anderson Review by Lael Weinberger Religious liberty has been the subject of lots of debates over the course of American history. The founding period saw debates about state establishments. The nineteenth century was marked by the public-school “Bible…

“Baptist History and Pentecostalism” by Doug Weaver

Sep 21, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, History, Religious Freedom, September 2020, Weaver, Doug

The Apostolic Faith Mission on Azusa Street, Los Angeles, CA in 1907 / Wikimedia Most observers (and participants!) do not see much if any connection between Baptists and Pentecostals. Baptists are generally known as cessationists — contending that the miracles in the New Testament and the extraordinary spiritual gifts practiced like glossolalia (speaking in tongues),…

“Divine Sovereignty, Popular Sovereignty, and the Dilemma of American Constitutionalism” by Sanford Levinson

Sep 17, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesHuman Rights / Civil Rights, Levinson, Sanford, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Dyana Wing So on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. By wonderful happenstance, this year’s Constitution Day (Thursday, September 17) occurs just two days before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and one of…