Omnivore - Religion in the Public Sphere

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is a collection of recent links on the role of religion in the public sphere, everything from religious pluralism to religious fanaticism to a supposed "global war" on Christianity.

Religion in the Public Sphere

Feb 17 2014 

3:00PM

• Chang Yau Hoon (Singapore Management): Rethinking Religious Tradition and Authority in the Postmodern World. 
• Eva Sadia Saad (Dhaka): Religious Pluralism: A Critical Review. 
• Kristine Kalanges (Notre Dame): Religious Liberty: Between Strategy and Telos. 
• Jonas Jakobsen (Tromso): Habermas, Taylor and Religion in the Public Sphere. 
• Frederick Mark Gedicks (BYU) and Pasquale Annicchino (EUI): Cross, Crucifix, Culture: An Approach to the Constitutional Meaning of Religious Symbols. 
• Domenico Melidoro (LUISS): Is Religion Special? A Question on the Possibility of Singling Out Religion. 
• Karen Jordan (Louisville): A Christian Vision of Freedom and Democracy: Neutrality as an Obstacle to Freedom. 
• Danny Cohen-Zada and Oren Rigbi (Ben-Gurion) and Yotam M. Margalit (Columbia): Does Religiosity Affect Support for Political Compromise? 
• The new intolerance: In this provocative challenge to the left, Cristina Odone argues that liberalism has become the new orthodoxy — and there is no room for religious believers to dissent (and a response). 
• What is this thing called law? Joshua Berman on the Jewish legal tradition and its discontents. 
• Beyond the Catholic-Protestant divide: Brenna Moore reviews Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. 
• Dwight Longenecker on the global war on Christians. 
• Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year? 
• Craig Considine on what Europe's far-right parties can learn from Islam. 
• Andrew F. March reviews The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament by Wael Hallaq and Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt by Hussein Ali Agrama. 
• Plato’s mistake: One person’s religious fanatic is another person’s freedom fighter; hardly an excuse, more like a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.