Events

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Interfaith Summit on Happiness

Interfaith Summit on Happiness featuring His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama and other world religious leaders October 17 followed by a one-day conference October 18 on The Pursuit of Happiness in Interreligious Perspective.

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From Silver to Gold: The Next 25 Years of Law and Religion

The conference celebrated the CSLR's silver anniversary by anticipating and articulating the hardest questions in law and religion facing the world in the next 25 years.

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Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President

What's Wrong with Rights for Children?

The conference culminated The Child in Law, Religion, and Society Project by exploring the successes and failures of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago; John Witte, Jr., Emory University

Sex, Marriage, and Family & the Religions of the Book: Modern Problems, Enduring Solutions

The conference launched the project, Sex, Marriage, and Family & the Religions of the Book, and set the stage for CSLR research on troubled family life, specifically the role religion has played in creating a multitude of complex family problems and the role it can and should play in finding last solutions.

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"An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage," February 7, 2001

In this essay, John Witte, Jr. argues that modern Anglo-American marriage law was formed out of two traditions–one rooted in Christianity, a second in the Enlightenment. Each of these traditions has... MORE