Adjudicating Religious Intolerance

Religious Intolerance towards Western Churches in Russia

Our 2005 representative national survey (2,972 interviews) shows an overwhelmingly common and strong religious intolerance towards Western churches that are legally deemed “non-traditional” and are commonly perceived as foreign to Russia. Most Russians would not let Western groups build churches, establish religious schools, or engage in other basic religious activities in their hometowns. West...

Adjudicating What Yoder Left Unresolved: Religious Rights for Minor Children after Danforth and Carey

In Wisconsin v. Yoder,' the Supreme Court held that a schoolattendance law requiring parents to send their children to school until the age of sixteen violated Amish parents' free exercise of religion, and infringed their right to direct the religious upbringig of their children.2 Over Justice Douglas' partial dissent,3 the Court limited its analysis to consideration of the constitutional right...

Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia

Metaphor, Religious Language and Religious Experience

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

The Genetic Legacy of Religious Diversity and Intolerance: Paternal Lineages of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula

Most studies of European genetic diversity have focused on large-scale variation and interpretations based on events in prehistory, but migrations and invasions in historical times could also have had profound effects on the genetic landscape. The Iberian Peninsula provides a suitable region for examination of the demographic impact of such recent events, because its complex recent history has ...