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The Center for the Study of Law and Religion is home to world-class scholars and forums on the religious foundations of law, politics, and society

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What happens when law and religion collide? Answers can be found in the writings and lectures of CSLR scholars. The increasingly volatile relationship of religious and political communities around the globe, particularly within the past decade, has made it imperative for religion and state to learn to cooperate with each other -- lest they annihilate cherished traditions and cultures worldwide.

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Building Cultures of Trust

September 11 and conspiratorial thinking, the economic crisis, banks and lenders, mistrust of government as a rescue agency, mortgage-lending to foreclosures,... more

Called to Happiness: Where Faith and Psychology Meet

This account of "the new science of happiness" not only supports traditional faith but gives examples that we can use to live a fulfilling life. It... more

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Featured Speaker

John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He will deliver the Don S. Browning Lecture at CSLR on January 25, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. He will outline a hard new issue of religious freedom and family law that is now confronting many Western democracies: to what extent may Islamic and other religious communities have the freedom to develop their own internal religious laws to govern the sex, marriage, and family lives of their voluntary faithful. Witte’s lecture is part of the When Law and Religion Meet Lecture Series 2011-2012.