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Christianity is the second-largest religion in Kazakhstan, with 26% of the population practicing the faith. But many Christians, especially in the smaller denominations, have experienced persecution.
Historians of American religious history explain why the Supreme Court’s recent religious liberty rulings are an example of America’s long struggle to define religious freedom.
Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Once again, the court has expanded the legal ways that public funds can be used for students at religious institutions.
When death is looming, the warmth of a held hand can communicate deeply where words fail.
Plenty of groups are offering religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but their legal basis isn’t as rock-solid as that might suggest.
In an unanimous decision, the nine justices said the city of Philadelphia was wrong to exclude a Catholic agency from its adoption programs.
School reforms pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron are aimed at pushing Muslim students into public schools. An expert explains why this may be the wrong approach.
When Trump leaves the White House in January, many American evangelicals will feel that they’ve lost their protector in chief.
The case Fulton v. Philadelphia is about foster care. But questions over a decades-old Supreme Court ruling may have wider implications.
A religion scholar explains how Ronald Reagan invoked religion and shifted the American notion of a good society – a vision that might resonate with the politics of today.
A 6-3 conservative court will hear a broader range of controversial cases, shift interpretations of individual rights and put more pressure on local democracy to make policy decisions.
A public health lawyer and ethicist explores the thorny issue of whether requiring people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 might be necessary. And if so, can people object citing their faith?
President Trump has promised to protect religious liberty. But there was a time when evangelicals believed that a religion that needed protection from government had no reason to exist at all.
America has been promoting religious liberty abroad since its founding, but there has always been disagreement on what exactly it means.
Trump embraced evangelicals in his first year as president. Here, scholars provide historical context to how the religious right has shaped American politics over the past decades.
The Supreme Court appeared divided over claims of religious freedom in the case of a gay wedding. History shows how contentious religious freedom has been in America.
There are three very different kinds of liberty. When people talk about religious liberty, what kind of liberty they might mean?
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Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor of Public Health and Law, Indiana University
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Professor of American Religious History, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St Louis
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Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology
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Assistant Professor, Emerson College
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Virginia
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor of American Religious History, Vanderbilt University
