Publications

Staff Editorials

September 2009:
Jehovah's Witnesses Undergo Persecution in the CIS 

May 2009:
Religious Freedom in Nigeria

February 2009:
President Obama Creates New Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood

November 2008:
Russia Moves to Liquidate Fifty-Six Religious Groups 

August 2008:
Freeing the Church to be the Church

April 2008:
Russian Orthodox Easter Celebrates Freedom Anew in 2008

March 2008:
The Pew Survey on Religious Affiliation in the United States:
A Commentary on Religious Freedom and Diversity

Articles

The articles found in this section are representative pieces authored by the Center's staff members. For additional information about literature on religious liberty, examined in both national and international contexts, please contact the Center.

• Baptists and the American Tradition of Religious Liberty
• Competing Notions of Law in American Civil Religion
• Church, State, and Higher Education
  
• Democracy and the Growth of Religious Liberty as a Universal Human Right
  
• Equal Treatment: A Christian Separationist Perspective
• Everson and Moments of Silence in Public Schools:
  Constitutional and Ethical Considerations
• Explaining the Complexities of Religion and State in the United States:
  Separation, Integration, and Accommodation
• How Christian was the American Revolution?
• Human Society and The Cultivation of Morality:
  The Ideas of the American Founding Fathers Considered
• Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists:
  The Origin and Meaning of the "Wall of Separation" Metaphor
• Mitchell v. Helms and the Modern Cultural Assault on the Separation of Church and State
• Original Intent and the Fourteenth Amendment
• Preserving the Integrity of the Constitution:
  An Examination of Deconstruction and Other Hermeneutical Theories
• Reflections on Faith and Freedom in Romania and Russia
• Religion and the American Founding:
  Pondering the Rise and Fall of Puritan Political Theology
• Religious Freedom
• The Church of Scientology:
  In Pursuit of Legal Recognition
• The Enduring Legacy of Roger Williams
• The Evolution of Religious Freedom as a Universal Human Right:
  Examining the Role of the 1981 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion and Belief
• The Ten Commandments and Public Piety: Comparing Jesus and Judge Roy Moore
• Why Religious Liberty?