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Talk About: Law and Religion

Talk About: Law and Religion

Working to secure the blessings of freedom or religion or belief for all people

  • Posts
  • Conversations
    • Religious Freedom and Gender Equality: Reflections on the Recent UN Special Rapporteur’s Report
      • Religious Freedom and Gender Equality: Reflections on the Recent UN Special Rapporteur’s Report
      • Can We Reconcile the Freedom of Religion with the Right to Be Free from Gender Discrimination?
      • Synergy and Conflict—Competing and Overlapping Interests of Freedom of Religion or Belief and Equality
      • Fairness for All: An Answer to the Special Rapporteur’s Call for a Practical Resolution between Freedom of Religion or Belief and LGBT+ Non-discrimination
      • Is Religious Autonomy a Threat to Gender Equality?
    • COVID-19 and Human Dignity
      • COVID-19 and Human Dignity
      • COVID-19 Crisis, Human Dignity and Freedom of Feligion or Belief 
      • Can Human Dignity Help Heal Us In Our Coronavirus Moment?
      • COVID-19 Requires an Urgent Response Grounded in Human Rights and Human Dignity
    • Conversation: Religion and the Rule of Law
      • Conversation: Religion and the Rule of Law
      • The World-Defining Contest between Monism and Dualism and the Future of Religious Freedom
      • Religion and the Rule of Law: Elements of Desperation and Inspiration
    • The Chained Wife Problem: Religious and Secular Perspectives
      • Conversation on “Chained” Women
      • The Chained Wife Problem: Religious and Secular Perspectives
      • The Aguna Problem – Recent Developments
      • Divorce and the Chained Wife: The Interplay of Civil Law and Religious Law
    • Ukrainian Autocephaly, One Year On
      • Ukrainian Autocephaly, One Year On
      • Religious Policies under President Zelensky
      • A Year after the Tomos: The Moscow Patriarchate’s Narratives About the New Church and Itself
      • From Chaplains of Maidan to Military Chaplains: One Year after the Tomos
      • The Orthodox Church of Ukraine: Can Relations with the Russian Orthodox Church Be Normalized?
      • U.S. Interference in Ukraine’s Autocephaly: An Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Unlikely Affair
      • A Language of “Sects” in Russian Reflections of Ukrainian Autocephaly
    • (Anti)Religious Speech and State Security Measures
      • (Anti)Religious Speech and State Security Measures
      • Symbols, Speech, and Security
      • Modern Book-Burning: Protected Speech?
      • More Than a Feeling
      • Disproportionality of Anti-Extremist Measures: The Case of Faizrakhamanists in Russia
    • Religious Freedom and Security as Mutually Reinforcing Objectives: Reflections on the New OSCE/ODIHR Policy Guidance
      • Religious Freedom and Security as Mutually Reinforcing Objectives: Reflections on the New OSCE/ODIHR Policy Guidance
      • Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security – Some Reflections
      • Security Measures and the Gender Dimension of Freedom of Religion or Belief
      • More Security Does Not Require Less Freedom: The Case of the NYPD Surveillance Program
      • The Names of Religious Groups and Security-Related Concerns
      • Let Freedom of Religion or Belief Pave the Way to Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
  • Human Dignity Initiative
    • COVID-19 Crisis, Human Dignity and Freedom of Feligion or Belief 
    • Can Human Dignity Help Heal Us In Our Coronavirus Moment?
    • COVID-19 Requires an Urgent Response Grounded in Human Rights and Human Dignity
    • Freedom of Religion and Belief for Everyone Everywhere: Lessons Learned and Good Practices
    • Human Dignity: Building Understanding
  • COVID-19
    • Religious Liberty and the Corona Crisis before the German Constitutional Court
    • COVID-19 Restrictions & (Re)Definition of Gender Roles in Nigeria
    • COVID-19 and Human Dignity
    • COVID-19 Crisis, Human Dignity and Freedom of Feligion or Belief 
    • Can Human Dignity Help Heal Us In Our Coronavirus Moment?
    • COVID-19 Requires an Urgent Response Grounded in Human Rights and Human Dignity
    • Competition of Conspiracies: Conflicting Narratives of COVID-19 within the Grassroots Russian Orthodox Milieu
    • An Early Good Friday, at Last: When Too Many Bells Toll in Italy
    • An Italian Lent in COVID-19 Lockdown
  • Authors
    • BYU Law Authors
      • Elizabeth Clark
      • Justin Collings
      • Cole Durham
      • Brett Scharffs
      • Donlu Thayer
      • Jane Wise
    • Scholars Program Authors
      • Dmytro Vovk
      • Azizat Omotoyosi Amoloye-Adebayo
      • Mohsin Alam Bhat
      • Michelle Flynn
      • Farzana Mahmood
      • Greg Marcar
      • Ewelina U. Ochab
    • Guest Authors
      • Tanner Bean
      • Robert Blitt
      • Francesco Di Lillo
      • Andriy Fert
      • Ján Figeľ
      • Elizaveta Gaufman
      • Montserrat Gas-Aixendri
      • Paul Gowder
      • Mark Hill
      • Tetiana Kalynychenko
      • Maria Kravchenko
      • Andrii Krawchuk
      • Stanislav Panin
      • Eugenia Relaño Pastor
      • Andrea Pin
      • Haim Shapira
      • Jeroen Temperman
      • Asma Uddin
      • Luca Pietro Vanoni
      • Marco Ventura
      • Catherine Wanner
      • Peter Weiderud
      • Robin Fretwell Wilson
      • Mine Yıldırım

Guest Authors

Tanner Bean
Robert C. Blitt
Francesco Di Lillo
Andriy Fert
Ján Figeľ
Montserrat Gas-Aixendri 
Elizaveta Gaufman
Paul Gowder
Mark Hill
Tetiana Kalnychenko
Maria Kravchenko
Andrii Krawchuk
Stanislav Panin
Eugenia Relaño Pastor
Andrea Pin
Haim Shapira
Jeroen Temperman
Asma Uddin
Lucia Pietro Vanoni
Marco Ventura
Catherine Wanner
Peter Weiderud
Robin Fretwell Wilson
Mine Yıldırım

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Please Note

The opinions expressed in the posts on this website do not necessarily represent the opinions of the faculty or staff of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies or the J. Reuben Clark Law School, or of Brigham Young University or its sponsoring church.

The International Center for Law and Religion Studies

A part of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, our mission is to help secure the blessings of freedom of religion and belief for all people by
- expanding, deepening, and disseminating knowledge and expertise regarding the interrelationship of law and religion,
- facilitating the growth of networks of scholars, experts, and policy makers involved in the field of religion and law, and
- contributing to law reform processes and broader implementation of principles of religious freedom worldwide.

Blog Editors

Donlu D. Thayer, Senior Fellow, International Center for Law and Religion Studies

Dmytro Vovk , Director, Center for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

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