Comparative Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, Religion and Politics

Blogpost ‘Religious Freedom, Eastern Ethical Monism, and Western “Civic Totalism”‘

'Just like by the ethically monistic character of certain theoretizations of Confucian democracy, expressive liberty is threatened by a Western "civic totalism" that – as Galston puts it – "tacitly views public institutions as plenipotentiary".' Read about the background of this development in my new blogpost for Leiden Law Blog: http://leidenlawblog.nl/articles/religious-freedom-eastern-ethical-monism-and-western-civic-totalism.

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Democracy, Law and Religion

Paper presentation during third bi-annual ICLARS conference in Virginia, United States

Last week I presented a paper during a conference on 'Religion, Democracy, and Equality', at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. The conference was organized by the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) and cosponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University, University of Virginia School… Continue reading Paper presentation during third bi-annual ICLARS conference in Virginia, United States