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      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
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      Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
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      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
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      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
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      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
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      What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1
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      Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
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      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
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      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
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      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
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      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
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      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is associate professor of politics at Northwestern University. She is the author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion, published by Princeton in 2015.

Archive, Politics/LawApril 27, 2016

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

“P2P: Challenging Extremism” is a new State Department-sponsored program that enlists American college students to…

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OMFG, RD BlogNovember 12, 2014

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

I would like to respond to Daniel Philpott’s reaction to my piece on the politics…

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Archive, Politics/Law, StoriesNovember 10, 2014

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

International religious freedom has become the civilizing discourse of our time.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 19, 2009

Jewish State, Islamic State: All States are Religious

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

All nations contribute to the management and definition of religion so it’s neither necessary, nor possible, to identify any state as definitively “religious” or “secular.” To choose is largely political.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 11, 2009

Faith, Politics, and Fruitcakes

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Was Obama’s interpretation of the proper relationship of faith to the Constitution really a “fruitcake” position as Dr. James Dobson called it?

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