“To summarize, the First Amendment is pro-religious freedom, which is quite different from being pro-religion. This predisposition includes the modem Establishment Clause, not just the Free Exercise Clause. The Religion Clauses do not conflict. Rather, both clauses work to safeguard religious free...
American narratives often celebrate the nation's rich heritage of religious freedom. There is, however, a less told and often ignored part of the story: the ways that intolerance and cultures of hate have manifested themselves within American religious history and culture.In the first ever ...
President Obama declared: “This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is ...
This is an accurate description of the Black experience in America, certainly the Native-American experience, and has applied in different ways to different others along the way, depending on when and where they made their entrance into the ranks. Though the arrangements she describes are familiar...
As the architect of religious freedom in America, Jefferson himself was a venerated figure in Jewish households. Hardly less so was his devoted lieutenant, James Madison, who had introduced the First Amendment into the Constitution. Accordingly, Jews who were active in politics gravitated almost refl...
Eventually, arguments would be made to assert that believing that the future could be foretold was a religious belief that would be a protected right. Still, the law had not reached this point during the early years of the 20th century. Since women were often both telling the fortunes as ...
have been tied to inspiring andconsolatory imaginations. No reconciliation is possible between religion and philosophy except through the philosophers’ recognitionthat they have found no substitute for the moral function of the...
United States is reputed for diversity and freedom from its historic period of colonialism. Initially, however, the freedom of Americans was tied to ethnic and religious affiliations mixture that granted privileges to some North America inhabitants over others. Although the idea of liberty in Europe ...
After the Seven Years'War(also known as the French and Indian War), England gained control of Canada and all of North America east of the Mississippi in 1763, confirming Britain's position as the dominant colonial power in the eastern half of North America. Map showing claims of Great ...
In Search of Religious Freedom? The belief that the Pilgrims came to America in search of religious freedom is inspiring, but in the sense that we usually mean it, it’s not really true. I’ve shared this reality numerous times since writing The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tel...