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“Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics: Donald Trump, Intergroup Threat, and Nationalism” by Chiara Migliori

Oct 11, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Migliori, Chiara, October 2022, Politics, Social Sciences

Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics: Donald Trump, Intergroup Threat, and NationalismChiara Migliori This is an excerpt reprinted with permission from Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics: Donald Trump, Intergroup Threat, and Nationalism by Chiara Migliori copyright © 2022 Palgrave Macmillan. Six years have elapsed since Donald Trump became the President elect of the United States. Since…

“The End of an Ideological Cycle?” by Cyril Hovorun

Jun 21, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysEurope (Geography), Hovorun, Cyril, Human Rights / Civil Rights, June 2022, Social Sciences

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. Daniel Bell (1919-2011), a leading American sociologist, declared in his 1960 essay collection, The End of an Ideology, that the mainstream ideologies that had shaped the global political landscape since the…

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

Mar 31, 2022Canopy ForumConviction, Literature HighlightsCriminal Law, March 2022, Social Sciences, Wosnik, Peter

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…

“The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom” by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green

Feb 28, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsFebruary 2022, Green, Jeffrey Edward, Religious Freedom, Sharkey, Heather J., Social Sciences

The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green An overview by the editors What is religious freedom and how should we understand it? In recent years, scholars have taken impassioned stances in responding to this question. Writing from the perspective of U.S. history, one group of scholars has…

“Law Without Gospel: Social Identity Pietism and the First Amendment Balance, Part One” by Laura Ford

Sep 1, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Constitutional Law, Ford, Laura, Religious Freedom, September 2021, Social Sciences

Photo by Darya Tryfanava on Unsplash. This is the final remnant of the Christianity of their ancestors, the last enduring bit of their inheritance: a social gospel, without the gospel. – Joseph Bottum, An Anxious Age (2014) The law commands and requires us to do certain things. The law is thus directed to our behavior and…

“Preview of ‘Queer Democracy: Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic'” by Daniel D. Miller

Jul 16, 2021Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsHuman Rights / Civil Rights, July 2021, Miller, Daniel D., Sex and Gender, Social Sciences

Preview of Queer Democracy: Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body PoliticDaniel D. Miller For centuries, Western thinkers have imagined society as a body. But why? Why this metaphor to represent society? What conceptual work has this metaphor, the metaphor of the “body politic,” done? And what kind of body has society been imagined to be? Queer…

“Democracy After Barth and Bonhoeffer” by Derek Woodard-Lehman

Jul 12, 2021Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2021, Social Sciences, Woodard-Lehman, Derek

Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Reflecting on Barth, Bonhoeffer and Modern Politics” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. In this brisk little book, Joshua Mauldin responds to the contemporary crisis of democracy by taking up three related topics: theological criticisms of modernity…