10th Anniversary Issue of Faith & International Affairs

This is to announce the 10th Anniversary Issue, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2013 of The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

The Review is published quarterly by the Institute for Global Engagement’s Center on Faith & International Affairs. It is the first and still only journal devoted exclusively to analysis and commentary regarding the role of religion—for good or ill—in global affairs. Combining peer-review quality with magazine accessibility, the Review brings together many of today’s most innovative and distinguished thinkers, making their research and commentaries available not just to specialists but to a wider audience of globally concerned readers.

“Religion and American Exceptionalism” – The Review of Faith & International Affairs

“Religion and American Exceptionalism”
Dennis R. Hoover, ed.
The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Vol. 10. No 2, 2012

Dennis R. Hoover is Executive Director of the Center on Faith & International Affairs at the Institute for Global Engagement. His publications include Religion and Foreign Affairs: Essential Readings co-edited with Douglas Johnston (Baylor, 2012) and the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security co-edited with Chris Seiple and Pauletta Otis…

Chosen Land, Chosen People: Religious and American Exceptionalism among the Mormons

“Chosen Land, Chosen People: Religious and American Exceptionalism among the Mormons”
Philip L. Barlow
The Review of Faith & International Affairs Volume 10, Issue 2, 2012

Abstract 
The United States and Mormonism took form concurrently, and a prominent motif in the Book of Mormon is that America is populated by a chosen people for a singular destiny. There is a distinction, however, between “American exceptionalism” and “religious exceptionalism” in the Mormon tradition….

The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion – Volume 1, Issue 2

The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 1 Num. 2
W. Cole Durham, Jr., Malcolm Evans, Silvio Ferrari, Julian Rivers & Gerhard Robbers, eds.
Oxford University Press, 1 October 2012 

Contents 

EDITORIAL
C Durham, M Evans, S Ferrari, P Petkoff, J Rivers & G Robbers                  &nbsp…

The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion – Volume 1, Issue 1

The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 1, Num. 1
W. Cole Durham, Jr., Malcolm Evans, Silvio Ferrari, Julian Rivers & Gerhard Robbers, eds.
Oxford University Press, 1 April 2012 

Contents 

EDITORIAL
C Durham, M Evans, S Ferrari, P Petkoff, J Rivers & G Robbers   &nbsp

Scharffs Publishes Article on Distinction between Secularity and Secularism

Brett G. Scharffs, Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law and Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, has published the article “Four Views of the Citadel: The Consequential Distinction between Secularity and Secularism,” in the journal Religion and Human Rights 6 (2011) 109-126.  

In this article Professor Scharffs suggests…

Brett Scharffs on Flag Salute Cases, Published in BYU Journal of Public Law

As the concluding speaker at the symposium “Belonging, Families, and Family Law,” held 28 January 2011 at the BYU Law School, Professor Brett G. Scharffs delivered a paper “Echoes from the Past: What We Can Learn about Unity, Belonging, and Respecting Differences from the Flag Salute Cases.” The symposium proceedings have been now published as Volume 25, No. 2 of the Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law.  

In summarizing his paper, Professor Scharffs reiterated recent observations…

Proceedings of BYU Civil Religion Conference Published in George Washington International Law Review

The proceedings of the conference “Civil Religion in the United States and Europe: Four Comparative Perspectives” have been published as Volume 41, Number 4 (2010) of The George Washington International Law Review. The conference, organized by Professor Frederick Mark Gedicks, Guy Anderson Chair & Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, with the assistance of W. Cole Durham, Jr. and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) at Brigham Young University…

Civil Religion in the United States of America

Civil Religion in the United States of America
Derek H. Davis (coord.)
Derecho y Religión Vol. VI. 
Delta Publications, 2011

Civil religion is a sociological reality in every society. Non-American readers of this issue of Derecho y Religion will find distinct differences in their own civil religious traditions from that in America. Those who have contributed to this issue are all Americans, but none attempt to offer the United States’ system as the perfect exemplar for all other nations. Every nation is unique and has certain historical practices and traditions that define the…

Proceedings Published of Conference on Laïcité in Comparative Perspective

The Proceedings of the inaugural conference of the St. Johns’ University School of Law’s Center for Law and Religion, Laïcité in Comparative Perspective, have been published in the St. John’s Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. ICLRS Associate Director Professor Brett Scharffs participated in the panel discussion, which was held at St. John’s Paris Campus on June 11, 2010. The conference brought together scholars from the…

Proceedings of AALS Panel Chaired by Professor Brett Scharffs Published

The Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (2010-2011)

The proceedings of a panel on the law and religion jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights at this year’s annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools organized and chaired by ICLRS Associate Director Brett Scharffs has just been published in the Journal of Law and Religion. The Symposium issue includes an introduction by Professor Scharffs and articles by Professor…

Durham: “Legal Status of Religious Organizations: A Comparative Overview”

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 8 (2):2-14 (June 2010)

ICLRS Director W. Cole Durham, Jr., has published the article “Legal Status of Religious Organizations: A Comparative Overview” in The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 8(2): 3-14. The article…

Faith & International Affairs

Volume 5, No. 3, Fall 2007

This issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs features a sampling of the rich array of essays presented at the Institute for Global Engagement’s Oslo 2006 conference, “Law and Religion in Transitional Societies.” Among the essays are “Security, Religious Autonomy, and the Good Society,”

Il Diritto Ecclesiastico

3-4 Il Diritto Ecclesiastico 360 (luglio-dicembre 2006)

Contains Cole W. Durham [sic.] and Christine G. Scott, “Public Finance and the Religious Sector in the United States: Expanding Cooperation in a Separationist State.”

Church and State Towards Protection for Freedom of Religion

International Conference on Comparative Constitutional Law 2005
The Japanese Association of Comparative Constitutional Law

Öarr – Osterreichisches Archiv fur Recht & Religion

Osterreichisches Archiv fur recht & religion 2004 heft 3, 51.jahrgang

This issue of the Austrian Archive for Law and Religion includes an article by Professor Cole Durham, “Verfassungsrecht, die Menschenrechte und die drohende Krise der religiösen Autonomie” (Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and the Impending Religious Autonomy Crisis).

Anuario de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado

Anuario de derecho eclesiástico del Estado, Año 1994, Número 10

Includes an article by W. Cole Durham, Jr., “Bases para un estudio comparativo sobre libertad religiosa” (Basis for a comparative study on religious freedom).

Emory International Law Review

Volume 8, No.1, Spring 1994

Includes the essay “The Future of Religious Liberty in Russia: Report of the De Burght Conference on Pending Russian Legislation Restricting Religious Liberty,” by W. Cole Durham, Jr., Lauren B. Homer, Pieter van Dijk, and John Witte, Jr.