The Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought features leading thinkers addressing theoretical and social questions regarding law and religion in contemporary society. The only forum of its kind in Canada, the colloquium is insistently multidisciplinary, drawing on creative and provocative thinkers from from a variety of relevant disciplines, including law, political theory, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and history. The colloquium brings together a core group of faculty and graduate students (both within and outside Osgoode) interested in critical analysis of the interaction of law and religion in a social, historical, and philosophical frame. The colloquium is thus not only a vehicle for the exploration of issues of law and religion, but also a forum for reflection on theoretical, methodological, and critical issues in law and society.

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Submissions from 2018

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Institutional or Individual-What is Religious Freedom in the U.S. Today, Leslie C. Griffin

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Merely Political Or Meaningfully Religious? Indigenous Protest Rituals And Their Legal Afterlives, Greg Johnson

Submissions from 2017

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Finding Religion- Assessing Religion-Based Asylum Claims, Helge Årsheim

Submissions from 2015

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The Everyday Life of Religious Difference: Governing Religion in Quebec, Amélie Barras

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Religion, Vaccines and Violence: Anxiety about the End of 'The World', Paul Bramadat

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The Tempting of Europe: a Schmittian Reading of Christianity and Islam in European Constitutionalism, Susanna Mancini

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The Sexual Politics of Religious Freedom: Protest and Secularism in the Age of AIDS, Anthony Petro

Submissions from 2014

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Power, Politics, and the Promotion of Religious Freedom, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

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"Bad Jews and Soft Crimes": Dispatches from the Construction of Masculinity, Sarah Imhoff

Submissions from 2013

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Regulating Intimacy: Religion, Sex, and Secular Cunning, Mayanthi Fernando

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Religious Equality in a Partial World, Larry Sager

Submissions from 2012

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The Power of Pluralist Thinking: Why the Idea of Religious Freedom Persists, Courtney Bender

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Putting Faith in Hate: Religion as the Source and Subject of Hate Speech, Richard Moon

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The Legal Person After the Sexual Revolution: Criminal Law, the Church and the Family, Ngaire Naffine

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Here Comes Everyone: Political Religion in the 21st Century, Winnifred T. Sullivan