In the fall of 2007, the Weatherhead Center is initiating the Seminar on Religion and Society to be chaired by Martha L. Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Nancy L. Rosenblum, Department Chair and Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Department of Government; and Ofrit Liviatan, Lecturer, Department of Government. This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the role of political and legal structures in shaping religiously based tensions. Through a series of invited presentations, the seminar seeks to identify: (1) possible links between theories on divisiveness and empirical studies examining the effects of political and constitutional systems on religious identities, religious political behavior, and the relationship among different social groups; and (2) alternative structures of pluralism that could inform normative and policy analysis.

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