{"id":793,"date":"2018-10-09T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/?p=793"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:25:21","slug":"lectures-in-religion-and-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/2018\/10\/09\/lectures-in-religion-and-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures in Religion and Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Fall, Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tom_borchert?lang=en\">Thomas Borchert<\/a> has arranged a truly impressive speaker series&#8211;one that boasts academic rockstars and timely topics. The Lectures in Religion and Law Series, &#8220;Interrogating Religion Freedom in the US and Abroad,&#8221; features four talks between October and November 2018; two of which center on Asia and two on North America.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Borchert gave the first talk in the series himself! On October 3, he presented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cas\/news\/thomas-borchert-reflects-plight-buddhist-monks-thailand-cas-full-professor-lecture\">&#8220;Bloody Amulets and Punitive Disrobing: Reflections on the Legal Environment Governing Monks in Contemporary Thailand.&#8221;<\/a> The talk was a CAS Full Professor lecture, a series sponsored by the College to honor and share the work of newly-minted full professors. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/author\/tborcher\/\">We assume you may know his work already<\/a>, but if not: Prof. Borchert writes about religion, nationalism, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiana.edu\/~relstud\/people\/profiles\/sullivan_winnifred\">Prof. Winnifred Sullivan<\/a> is the second speaker. Renown scholar of <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/11313.html\">law<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rsn.aarweb.org\/columns\/winnifred-fallers-sullivan-2017-marty-award-winner\">religion<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Prison_Religion.html?id=R9WsuQAACAAJ\">United States<\/a>, Prof. Sullivan&#8217;s talk, &#8220;Banning Bibles: Death-Qualifying a Jury,&#8221; will be on October 11.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we welcome <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu\/~esh291\/Elizabeth_Shakman_Hurd\/home.html\">Prof. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd<\/a>, a political scientist who focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Religious-Freedom-Winnifred-Sullivan\/dp\/022624850X\/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=\">law<\/a>, religion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Secularism-International-Relations-Princeton\/dp\/0691134669\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1432432092&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=elizabeth+shakman+hurd\">international relations<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Religious-Freedom-Politics-Religion\/dp\/0691176221\/ref=s9u_simh_gw_i1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;fpl=fresh&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=&amp;pf_rd_r=2KKAH6P3FXHVZWF3TN4J&amp;pf_rd_t=36701&amp;pf_rd_p=1cded295-23b4-40b1-8da6-7c1c9eb81d33&amp;pf_rd_i=desktop\">concept of religious freedom<\/a>. Her talk, &#8220;Religion and Politics after Religious Freedom,&#8221; will be held on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.upenn.edu\/religious_studies\/profile\/jolyon-thomas\">Prof. Jolyon Thomas<\/a> joins us a lecture titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/F\/bo36844848.html\">Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan<\/a>&#8221; on November 13. He is a scholar of definitions of religion, religious freedom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/drawing-on-tradition-manga-anime-and-religion-in-contemporary-japan\/\">religion and media<\/a>, Asian religious traditions, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jolyon.thomasresearch.org\/research\/\">religion and law<\/a>. 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