Gerasimos T. Soldatos (AUA) and Erotokritos Varelas (Macedonia): On the Nexus between Religion and Politico-Economics. Benjamin Hertzberg (Harvard): Comprehensive Deliberation: Democratic Reasoning Across Religious Difference. Michele Margolis (MIT): The Reciprocal Relationship between Religion and Politics: A Test of the Life Cycle Theory. Michele Margolis (MIT): Don't Lose Control: How Partisanship and the Political Landscape Shape Religious Beliefs. Isabelle Engeli (Ottawa) and Lars Thorup Larsen and Christoffer Green-Pedersen (Aarhus): How Religion Becomes Political: A Comparative Study of Religion and Morality Policy. Douglas Casson (St. Olaf): Coffeehouse Civility and the Problem of Religious Hate Speech. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern): “Freedom of the Church” and the Authority of the State. Gila Stopler (ACLB): The Challenge of Strong Religion in the Liberal State. Jason Klocek (UC-Berkeley): State Repression and Religious Disorder. Benjamin L. Berger (York): Religious Diversity, Education, and the “Crisis” in State Neutrality. Jonathan T. Chow (Macau): Religious Norm Contestation and its Consequences. Scott McLemee reviews Religion Without God by Ronald Dworkin. The first chapter from Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan. What's so damn special about religion, anyway? Kenneth Einar Himma reviews Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter.
