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Center for the Study of Law and Religion

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Scholars Involved

Prof. Abdullahi An-Na’im, Professor of Law

Prof. Michael Berger, Associate Professor of Religion

Prof. David Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies

Prof. Michael Broyde, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Prof. Paul B. Courtright, Professor of American Church History

Prof. Brooks Holifield, Professor of American Church History

Prof. Luke Timothy Johnson, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins

Prof. Richard Martin, Professor of Religion

Prof. Michael J. Perry, Professor of Law

Prof. Philip L. Reynolds, Professor of Historical Theology

Prof. Russell E. Richey, Professor of Church History

Prof. Steven M. Tipton, Professor of Sociology of Religion

Prof. Johan D. van der Vyver, Professor of International Law and Human Rights

Prof. J. Witte, Jr., Professor of Law, Director

Prof. Abdullahi An-Na’im

Candler Professor of Law (Emory University)

Emory University
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30322-2770 USA
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Homepage: http://www.law.emory.edu/aannaim

Research Profile

Prof. An-Na’im's specialties are international human rights, comparative constitutional law, and Islamic law. He has written and edited numerous books and articles, and lectured widely throughout the world on law and human rights, Islamic law and politics, and cross-cultural comparative law.

Teaching Profile

Islamic Law; Islam and Politics; Key Issues in Human Rights

Selected Publications

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a (Harvard University Press, 2008)

African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)

Inter-religious Marriages Among Muslims (Global Media, 2005)

Human Rights under African Constitutions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)

Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law (Syracuse Univesity Press, 1996)

Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Quest for Consensus (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992)

Prof. Michael Berger

Associate Professor of Religion (Emory University)

Department of Religion
Emory University
Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA
537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Phone: +01 404 727 6258
Fax: 404-727-7597

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Homepage: http://www.religion.emory.edu/faculty/berger.html

Research Profile

Prof. Berger is the author of Rabbinic Authority and edited The Emergence of Ethical Man based on the writings of the late Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Berger's scholarship and research focus on issues of religious authority and ethics in Judaism, as well as the social and historical context for legal thinking. He received a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University, Israel, and was granted ordination by Yeshivat Har Etzion.

Teaching Profile

Classic Religious Texts: Talmud; Introduction to Religions: Judaism and Hinduism; Jewish Ethics; Jews and Judaism in Modern Times
Joint Seminar in Philosophy and Religion: Post-Holocaust Jewish Theology; Judaism

Selected Publications

Rabbinic Authority (Oxford, 1998)

Editor, The Emergence of Ethical Man (2005)

Prof. David Blumenthal

Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Phone: +01 404-727-7545
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Homepage: http://www.js.emory.edu/BLUMENTHAL/index.html

Research Profile

Prof. Blumenthal teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and Holocaust studies.

Teaching Profile

Biblical Literature; Classic Religious Texts: Ecclesiastes; Freshman Seminar: Using Stamps to Explore Religion and Culture; Jewish Mystical Tradition: The Zohar;
Special Topics: Interpreting Psalms; Rabbinic Judaism: Prayer and Liturgy

Selected Publications

Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion (2007)

The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition (Georgetown University Press, 1999)

Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster / John Knox, 1993)

God at the Center (Harper and Row, 1988; reprinted Jason Aronson, 1994 (translated as Dieu au coeur, 2002)

Understanding Jewish Mysticism (2 vols.) (1978, 1982)

Prof. Michael Broyde

Professor of Law; senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion

Phone: (404) 727-7546
Fax: (404) 727-3374

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Homepage: http://www.law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/michael-j-broyde.html

Research Profile

Rabbi Broyde's primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, and comparative religious law. He is ordained as a rabbi by Yeshiva University and is a member of the Beth Din of America, the largest Jewish law court in America. Broyde has published more than 70 articles on various aspects of law and religion and Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of federal courts.

Teaching Profile

Jewish Law

Selected Publications

Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)

Marriage, Divorce and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law: A Conceptual Understanding of the Agunah Problems in America (KTAV Publishing House, 2001)

Assisted Reproduction and Jewish Law (Monograph, 1999)

Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious, and Political Perspectives (Jason Aronson Publishers, 1998)

Prof. Paul B. Courtright

Professor of religion and Asian studies, former chair of the Department of Religion and of Asian Studies

Department of Religion
Emory University
Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA
537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Phone: 404-727-8187 (Office)
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Research Profile

Prof. Courtright's specialties are Hindu marriage, pilgrimage traditions, and religions in British colonial India.

Teaching Profile

Classic Religious Texts: The Lives of the Ramayana, An Indian Classic; Freshman Seminar: Genuine Phonies: Religion and the Search for Authenticity in the Modern World; Introduction to Religion: Christianity and Hinduism; Intro to Religions: Sacred Destinations: Pilgrimage in Christian and Hindu Traditions; Religion & Film: India, Bangladesh, and the United States; Special Topics: Religion and Culture: Religion and Modern India

Selected Publications

Ganesa: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)

Marital Arrangements: Hindu Marriage in India and its Diasporas (forthcoming)

Co-editor with Lindsey Harlan, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays in Gender, Culture and Religion (Oxford University Press, 1995)

The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice (forthcoming)

Prof. Brooks Holifield

Professor of American Church History (Candler School of Theology, Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University)

1531 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: +01 404 727 6319
Fax: +01 404 727 2494

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Homepage: http://www.candler.emory.edu/ABOUT/faculty/holifield.cfm

Research Profile

Prof. Holifield's specialties are religious history, the history of Christian thought in America, and early colonial American religion. He has written numerous books and articles and lectured widely on themes in American religious history.

Teaching Profile

History of Ministry in America; Religion in America; History of Theology in America

Selected Publications

God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2007)

Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (Yale University Press 2003)

Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680 (Twayne Publishers 1989)

Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition (Crossroad Publishing Company 1986)

A History of Pastoral Care in America (Wipf & Stock Publishers 1983)

The Gentlemen Theologians (Duke University Press 1978)

The Covenant Sealed (Wipf & Stock Publishers 1974)

Prof. Luke Timothy Johnson

Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins (Candler School of Theology)

1531 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: +01 404 727 6339
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Research Profile

Prof. Johnson's research interests include Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Letters, and the Letter of James.

Teaching Profile

The Theology of Paul; Sexuality in the Bible.

Selected Publications

Hebrews: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox Press 2006)

Brother of Jesus: Friend of God (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2004)

The First and Second Letters to Timothy (Yale Universtiy Press 2001)

Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospels (Harper One, 1999)

Reading Romans: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Crossroads Press, 1997)

A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (Liturgical Press, 1991)

The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation (Augsburg Fortress, 1988)

Prof. Richard Martin

Professor of religion (Emory University)

Department of Religion
Emory University
Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA
537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Phone: +01 404-727-7544
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Homepage: http://cslr.law.emory.edu/people/person/name/martin/

Research Profile

Prof. Martin's areas of expertise include Islamic studies, comparative studies in religion, and religion and conflict. His publications include Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies, Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach, and Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism co-edited with John Witte, Jr. In addition to his teaching, Professor Martin lectures widely on topics related to Islam and the history of world religions, and serves as President of the American Research Center in Egypt.

Teaching Profile

Freshman Seminar: Global Islam in the 21st Century; Freshman Seminar: Usama bin Ladin; Introduction to Religions: Christianity and Islam; Modern Islam; Senior Symposium: Religious Studies in the 21st Century; Special Topics: Islamic Theology and Ethics; Special Topics: Islam in America; Special Topics: Globalization and Islam; Western Religions

Selected Publications

Co-editor with John Witte, Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism (Wipf & Stock, 2008)

Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (MacMillan, 2003)

Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies (Oneworld, 2001)

Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu`tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Oneworld 1997).

Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach (Prentice-Hall 1996)

Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies (Tucson 1985)

Prof. Michael J. Perry

Professor of Law

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Research Profile

Holding one of Emory's most prestigious chairs, Prof. Perry is one of the nation's leading authorities on the relationship of morality to law. He has focused on three areas: American constitutional law, the proper role of religiously grounded morality in American law and politics, and the morality of human rights. The author of nine books, published by Oxford, Cambridge and Yale university presses, Perry has written on a broad range of the most contentious issues of American law and politics.

Teaching Profile

Constitutional Law; Law and Morality; Senior Symposium: Religious Studies in the Shadow of 9/11; Topics in Religion: Constitutional Rights: Selected Topics

Selected Publications

Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court: A (Partial) Theory of Judicial Review (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009)

Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 1999)

The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (Oxford University Press, 1998)

Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1997)

The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics (Oxford University Press, 1994)

Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Morality, Politics, and Law (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Prof. Philip L. Reynolds

Professor of Historical Theology (Candler School of Theology)

1531 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: +01 404 727 0813
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Homepage: http://www.candler.emory.edu/about/faculty/reynolds.cfm

Research Profile

Prof. Reynolds' current research focuses on Western Christian thought CE 400-1400, especially scholastic theology and philosophy during the High Middle Ages, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas.

Teaching Profile

Mystical Thought and Practice: Christian Mystical Theology; Theology in the Monastic Tradition; Ethics of Aquinas; Theology of Thomas Aquinas; Love and Happiness

Selected Publications

With John Witte, Jr. To Have and To Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianization of Marriage During Patristic Times and Early Medieval Periods (Brill, 2001)

Food and the Body: Some Particular Questions in High Medieval Theology (Brill, 1999)

Prof. Russell E. Richey

Professor of Church History (Candler School of Theology)

1531 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: +01 404 727 4158
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Research Profile

Prof. Richey's research and teaching interests have focused on American Methodism, comparative study of religious institutions (denominations), and American civil religion.

Teaching Profile

Dividing Community, Race, Doctrine, and Identity in America

Selected Publications

Marks of Methodism (Abingdon Press 2005), coauthor

Episcopacy in the Methodist Tradition (Abingdon Press 2004), coauthor

The Methodist Experience in America (Abingdon Press 2000), coauthor

Questions for the Twenty-First Century Church (Abingdon Press 1999), coeditor

The People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life (Abingdon Press 1998), coeditor

The Methodists (1996, 1998), coauthor

The Methodist Conference in America: A History (Kingwood Books 1996)

Reimagining Denominationalism (Oxford University Press 1994),coeditor, coauthor

Ecumenical and Interreligious Perspectives: Globalization in Theological Education (1992), editor, coauthor

Early American Methodism (Indiana University Press 1991)

Prof. Steven M. Tipton

Professor of sociology of religion

1531 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: +01 404 727 6320
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Research Profile

His current research focuses on the institutional logics of American religion and politics, and the sociology of morality.

Teaching Profile

Sociology of Religion

Religion in American Society

Contemporary American Religion and Politics

Morality in American Life

The Church and Social Action, Conflict, and Change

Selected Publications

Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life (Georgetown Press, 2005)

The Good Society (Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1992), coauthor

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (University of California Press 1985), coauthor

Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change (University of California Press 1982)

Prof. Johan D. van der Vyver

Professor of International Law and Human Rights

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Research Profile

Formerly a professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), Prof. van der Vyver is an expert on human rights jurisprudence and the international criminal court, and actively participated in efforts to end apartheid and bring constitutional reform to his native South Africa. Van der Vyver also has served as a fellow in the Human Rights Program of The Carter Center of Emory University.  He is the author of several books in Afrikaans and English, including and more than 300 articles on issues related to human rights and law and religion.

Teaching Profile

International Human Rights; Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Change in South Africa

Selected Publications

Leuven Lectures on Religious Institutions, Religious Communities and Rights (Peeters, 2003).

Co-editor with John Witte, Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff, 1996).

Co-editor with John Witte, Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff, 1996).

The Protection of Human Rights in South Africa

Prof. John Witte, Jr.

Professor of Law; Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion

Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, Ga 30322
USA

Phone: +01 404-727-6980
Fax: +01 404-712.8605

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Homepage: http://www.law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/john-witte-jr.html

Research Profile

A prolific writer and editor, Prof, Witte is a specialist in legal history, religious liberty, marriage and family law, and human rights.  His writings have appeared in 10 languages.  With the support of third party funds from various foundations, Witte has directed major projects on issues of democracy, human rights, and religious freedom; sex, marriage, family, and children; and Christian Jurisprudence.

Teaching Profile

Constitutional Law: Church and State; Contracts; Criminal Law; History of Church-State Relations in the West

Selected Publications

The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Christianity and Law: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (2nd ed.) (Westview Press, 2005)

Sex, Marriage and Family Life in John Calvin ’s Geneva (Eerdmans, 2005)

The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature (2 vols.) (Columbia University Press, 2005)

Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

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Prof. Abdullahi An-Na’im, Professor of Law

Prof. Michael Berger, Associate Professor of Religion

Prof. David Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies

Prof. Michael Broyde, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Prof. Pal B. Courtright, Professor of American Church History

Prof. Brooks Holifield, Professor of American Church History

Prof. Luke Timothy Johnson, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins

Prof. Richard Martin, Professor of Religion

Prof. Michael J. Perry, Professor of Law

Prof. Philip L. Reynolds, Professor of Historical Theology

Prof. Russell E. Richey, Professor of Church History

Prof. Steven M. Tipton, Professor of Sociology of Religion

Prof. Johan D. van der Vyver, Professor of International Law and Human Rights

Prof. J. Witte, Jr., Professor of Law, Director