Religion & Law

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Mike Madden, Second Among Equals? Understanding the Short Shrift that Freedom of Religion is Receiving in Canadian Jurisprudence, (Journal of Law and Equality, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 55-86, 2011).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, Reflections on the Link between Faith and Intellect, (CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-2, Jan. 18, 2011).
• Faisal Kutty, The Myth and Reality of 'Shari'a' Courts in Canada: A Delayed Opportunity for the Indigenization of Islamic Legal Rulings, (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 7, 2010).
• Brian Leiter, The Law of Religious Liberty in a Tolerant Society, (January 25, 2011).
• Mark Rienzi, The Constitutional Right to Refuse: Roe, Casey, and the Fourteenth Amendment Rights of Healthcare Providers, (January 27, 2011).
• Gregory Brazeal, Webs of Faith as a Source of Reasonable Disagreement, (January 1, 2011).
• Michael C. Dorf, Same-Sex Marriage, Second-Class Citizenship, and Law?s Social Meanings, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-03, Jan. 28, 2011).
• Wilson Ray Huhn, A Higher Law: Abraham Lincoln's Use of Biblical Imagery, (U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-1, Jan. 24, 2011).

• Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The Islamic World in the New Century: The Organisation of Islamic Conference, 1969-2009, (Columbia Univ. Press, Nov. 2010), reviewed in Today's Zaman.
• S. Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil (eds.), Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives, (Columbia Univ. Press, Feb. 2011).
• John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen (eds.), Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order, (Columbia Univ. Press, Feb. 2011).
• American Foreign Policy Council, The World Almanac of Islamism 2010, (Rowman & Littlefield, Jan. 2011).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).