Proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to law and religion.

Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion

"Almost everyone today affirms the importance and merit of religious liberty. But religious liberty is being challenged by new questions (for example, use of th

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial Ame