Chapter 2. This essay examines the effect of the state's institutionalization of Islam in governing and the legal system on regime type. The influence of the institutionalization of Islam is compared to the effect of other economic, institutional, and cultural determinants of re…
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This thesis uses the recently decided R v NS to assess the contours of the freedom to wear the niqab, as part of religious freedom, in Canada. By criticizing the majority and concurring opinions I argue that, properly understood, a witness's religious freedom should protect her …
On January 9, 1961, Folsom State Prison inmate Jesse L. Ferguson filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court of the State of California. Ferguson, a member of the Nation of Islam, alleged that prison administrators had denied Muslim inmates the right to fre…
The term ‘religious pluralism’ has been emerged as a result of interconnection and intersection between various ideologies, cultures, and religious affiliations among humankind. It is a theological concept that celebrates plurality, diversity, and coexistence of religions in whi…
In industrial societies where civil law and state institutions have become well-established secular vehicles for governing the populace, it is widely assumed that the state no longer has an interest in fortifying the religious sector as a complementary source of social control. …
My dissertation project, Mormons at the World's Fair: A Study of Religious and Cultural Agency and Transformation looks at a pivotal period of transition within the American religious and political national culture (1880–1907). Using Mormonism as an important focal point of nati…
The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 positions religious freedom at the center of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. seeks as part of its foreign policy to impose sanctions, including the designation of certain egregious violators of religious freedom as Countries of Parti…
The dissertation examines how the institutions of democracy, namely the judiciary and the legislature, deal with the clashes between the rights to equal respect and religious freedom. The dissertation tests three hypotheses: (a) In accommodationist countries, there is a higher p…
In 1981, at the U.N. General Assembly's 36th session, Iran's representative declared that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represented a secular interpretation of Judeo-Christian tradition that could not be implemented by Muslim states. This dissertation explores that c…
The dissertation seek to establish three theses. First, if secularism (defined as the separation of religious and political institutions) is a realistic and valid model for regulating the interaction of religious and political institutions, the extension of its usefulness is sev…
Religious freedom has played an essential role in American history. Yet, there is a long tradition of neglect and ignorance in matters of faith in the U.S. foreign policy arena. As a result, diplomats are ill prepared to understand the evolution of religious freedom in the Ameri…