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Existing studies have examined only the unidirectional impact of cultural diversity on the economic performance of countries, regions, and cities, not the other ways. They have assumed the diversity as given, while it may also grow, due to in-migration of workers and entrepreneurs, with economic growth and may be dependent on it. This paper models diversity and economic growth in a bi-directional causal frame and demonstrates that economic growth has a substantial impact on religious, language, and overall cultural diversities in the major states of India. However, the Granger causality between economic growth to language diversity and overall cultural diversity is found to be stronger and more widespread across the states than the causality from economic growth to religious diversity. The findings of this paper may have significant theoretical and empirical implications, as mainly the unidirectional way the impact of cultural diversity on economic growth has been advocated and the empirical studies have been modelled to date., Author(s): Abdul Shaban [sup.1] , Philippe Cadene [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.419871.2, 0000 0004 1937 0757, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, , Mumbai, India (2) grid.5842.b, [...]

Gross human rights violations occur every day, often invisibly to most of us. Media coverage of Russian rights violations in Ukraine has resurfaced this issue, but even that has begun [...]

In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the Supreme Court will consider whether Philadelphia's 2018 policy of excluding Catholic Social Services from continued participation in the placement of children in need [...]

Why are Catholic hospitals now liable to suit by 'transgender men' on whom they refuse, for religious reasons, to perform hysterectomies? (1) In part, no doubt, because courts misunderstand the [...]

Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed 'snow ghosts,' and postcard-perfect views of Glacier National Park. And, of course, for 'Big Mountain [...]

[Author's Note: This unpublished opinion was supposedly found among the papers of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. I cannot say with authority that the supposition is true. Whatever its source, [...]

It is part of the absurdity of American life that we decide questions of truth under the guise of settling contests of rights. Which means that we decide questions of [...]

The dazzling efficiency with which corporate America exchanges its turkeys and pumpkins for snowmen and reindeer each year confirms that our society is fully post-Christian. The occasional earnest performance of [...]

It is a real and valued privilege to be able to speak to you today by your invitation and the inspiration of my distinguished former student in Oxford, Peter Carfagna: [...]

Evangelicalism, a primary driver of the emergence of modernity, has enormous consequences for Peter Berger's two pluralisms. It greatly increases the salience of religion and religious difference; it tends to undermine the religious unity of society and to foster over time societies in which 'many altars' coexist and compete for influence and adherents; it supports religious freedom and undermines the power of political elites in religion; and it radically challenges the status, authority, and even existence of inherited religious traditions, hierarchies, and clerical leaders. At the same time, Evangelical social activism relates much more naturally to the first pluralism than to the second. Evangelicals have few existing resources for peaceful coexistence with secularism, and a typical Evangelical would be likely to reject significant elements of Berger's description of the so-called 'secular discourse.' Evangelicals face great challenges in the modern world but also have substantial resources, and a case can be made either for optimism or pessimism about their prospects as the two pluralisms increase., Author(s): Timothy Shah[sup.1] , Greg Forster[sup.2] Author Affiliations: Timothy Shah is Associate Director, and Scholar in Residence, Religious Freedom Project, Georgetown University. Greg Forster is Director of the Oikonomia Network, [...]

INTRODUCTION Dignitatis Humanae: 'Of Human Dignity.' The Second Vatican Council's 1965 declaration on religious liberty must have seemed a triumph--an exclamation mark signaling the success of a decades-long project, begun [...]

INTRODUCTION The debate between liberty and equality is at a particularly fierce, fertile, and interesting pass in the United States. Like many such conflicts over irreconcilable fundamental values, this struggle [...]

In June of 1981, after serving for 16 months as the first president of Iran, I was in hiding. There had been a coup against me; a fatwa had been [...]

'Freedom!' was the cry of Baptists who emerged in the restricted religious climate of seventeenth-century England. Baptists in England and later in the American colonies fought tenaciously for freedom of [...]

Today, prominent academics are questioning the very possibility of a theory of free exercise or non-establishment. They argue that judgments in the area can only be conclusory or irrational. In [...]

It's easy to be demoralized after Obergefell. Many powerful forces want to make us dhimmis, the Muslim word for non-Muslims who are allowed to exist as long as they don't [...]

This article concludes our formal series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II. The author inquires about the idea of human dignity that inspired Dignitatis humanae, the Declaration on Religious Freedom. The idea is grounded in the fact that human beings are created in the image of God; they are intelligent and free, replicas of divine nature. They are called to meet God in their consciences, and serve God in obedience and love. Such a response must take place in an environment of freedom, internal and external. Five decades later the question is still alive: How ought the Church respect consciences? Further, the implementation of the Declaration in our contemporary world may demand that the 'new evangelization' should begin with awakening human persons to their own dignity. Keywords ecclesiology, councils, ecumenical councils, Vatican II, religious freedom, conscience, dissent, church and state, human rights, human dignity, evangelization, One of the most insightful of the commentators on the Second Vatican Council, French Benedictine Ghislain Lafont, writes in his book L'Eglise en travail de reforme, 'The history of the [...]

3. CORPORATE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS: NOT A NEW IDEA This concept of the corporation as a distinct entity inevitably leads to the question: What rights should a for-profit corporation get? [...]

I. INTRODUCTION II. FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: THE BASICS OF THE CLAIM AND LESSONS FROM RELATED CASE-LAW. A. THE CURRENT STATE OF FREE EXERCISE JURISPRUDENCE IN GENERAL 1. JUSTIFICATION/BALANCING TEST [...]

I Introduction In January 2013, the European Court of Human Rights released its decision in Eweida v United Kingdom. (1) The Court decided on applications in four freedom of religion [...]

Like other key words of American political and cultural discourse, the term liberalism suffers from a frustrating, even maddening, degree of ambiguity and imprecision in the way it is used. [...]

Like many of you, I am a teacher. It is within the context of my course on the church that I attempt to introduce students to both the rich diversity [...]

Western nations maintain variously high walls of separation between church and state. One consequence of this separation is the ongoing dilution, often preceding the occasional disappearance from 'public' life, of [...]