News from the Center for the Study of Law and Religion
at Emory University
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Volume 3 Number 1
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Fall 2009
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 Greetings!
Warm fall greetings from the Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) at Emory University. We embark on this academic year with a new website that makes our scholarship -- particularly our work in law, religion, and human rights -- more accessible to the public. This issue of our e-newsletter explains the site's features, and also highlights our new books and recent accomplishments of our senior fellows. We hope you enjoy this issue and will share it widely with your family, friends, and colleagues.
Sincerely,
John Witte, Jr Frank S. Alexander
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 Website Makes Research Accessible to Public
The CSLR has launched a new website that provides unprecedented access to its most important work of the past 25 years. It is available at http://cslr.law.emory.edu. Full bibliographic information on more than 1,000 books, journals, articles, and chapters has been added to the site. Subject areas include law, religion, and human rights; sex, marriage, and family; the child in law, religion, and society; the pursuit of happiness; and Christian, Jewish, and Islamic legal studies. READ MORE
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 New CSLR Publications Catalog Available Online, by Mail
A new publications catalog announcing the CSLR's latest and forthcoming volumes is now available online and by mail. The guide is a must-have bibliography and provides a handy reference tool for scholars of law and religion. It spans the years 2005-2010, covers 61 already released volumes, and announces more than 40 commissioned titles. Each published listing includes a description and full bibliographic information. DOWNLOAD PDF I READ MORE
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 Broyde Awarded Grant to Study Missing Husbands & Jewish Law
CSLR Senior Fellow Michael J. Broyde has received a $30,000 grant to study the legal issues surrounding Jewish husbands who are missing as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and whose apparent widows now wish to remarry. The Emory University Research Committee presented the award to Broyde to write a book about how 9/11 brought back the relevance of heter aguna, permission from a Jewish authority for a woman to remarry because it seems that her husband has died. Under Jewish law, women cannot remarry without a religious bill of divorce or proof that her husband is dead. READ MORE
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 Worthington Wins National Advocacy Award
CSLR Senior Fellow Karen L. Worthington has received the 2009 Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award from the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) for her efforts to fight for children's rights in Georgia. Georgia Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur) nominated Worthington, whom she describes as a "pioneer in children's law in Georgia." READ MORE
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 Emory Magazine Explores Back Story of Witte's 'Sins' Book
Emory Magazine's summer 2009 issue explores the back story of John Witte, Jr.'s new book, The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Writer Mary J. Loftus relates experiences from Witte's childhood, including the story of his foster brother Robert, which became the seed for his exploration of society and the church's improper misjudgment of illegitimate children. READ MORE
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 Big Think Features CSLR Experts
Big Think, a global online forum that features in-depth video interviews with the world's leading experts, now includes CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. and CSLR Senior Fellow Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im. Witte speaks on a wide range of subjects, including the "wall" between church and state, intelligent design in the classroom, trends transforming the American family, religious freedom, human rights, and same-sex marriage. An-Na'im discusses the West's biggest misconceptions about Islam. View interviews: WITTE, AN-NA'IM
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 CSLR Alums Comment on Value of Joint Degree Program
Three recent CSLR joint degree program graduates reflect on their experience at Emory and their aspirations for the future. In individual stories, Danielle Goldstone, Judd Treeman, and Brad Glick (all 2009 JD-MTS graduates) talk about what brought them to Emory, how their studies at Emory impacted their view of the interplay of law and religion, and what they plan on doing from here. READ MORE
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 New Award Honors Eliza Ellison
The Eliza Ellison Prize for Leadership in Law and Religion was newly created in 2009 in honor of Eliza Ellison, the CSLR's long-standing Associate Director and previous Director of Publications. The award is granted to a joint degree graduate who has shown special initiative in leading law and religion studies within and beyond the classroom. The first prize winner was Danielle Goldstone (JD and MTS '09) for her work as Editor in Chief of the Emory International Law Review and convener of a major conference on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The prize is made possible by the generosity of the faculty, staff, current students, alumni/ae, and friends of the CSLR.
Pledges are needed to continue to fund this award. If you are able to make a pledge or contribution, please make checks payable to "Emory University" and indicate on the memo line: "Eliza Ellison Prize." Send checks or pledges directly to CSLR Director of Business and Finance Anita Mann, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory Law School, 1301 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 (email: lawam@law.emory.edu; 404-727-6819) |
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 Children and Childhood in World Religions
Don S. Browning and Marcia J. Bunge
(Rutgers University Press, 2009)
Overlooked by scholars of religion throughout history, children and religion get center stage in a new volume edited by CSLR Senior Fellow Don S. Browning and Marcia J. Bunge, professor of humanities and theology at Christ College. "Although religious traditions have addressed children and childhood, scholars of the world's religions have generally neglected these themes," write the editors in the introduction to Children and Childhood in World Religions. "To overlook how religions shape and are shaped by children and youth is to misunderstand both children and religion." READ MORE
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 Doctrine in Experience: A Methodist Theology of Church and Ministry
Russell E. Richey (Kingswood Books, 2009)
United Methodism is often accused of having an incoherent theological center. By examining the history and salient features of the church, this book claims that United Methodist theology is actually appropriated from its experience as a missional corporate body. This perspective allows United Methodism to do theology in new ways and to better adapt to its multivalent contexts. READ MORE
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 What is Right for Children? The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights
Martha A. Fineman and Karen L. Worthington, eds. (Ashgate Publishing, 2009)
A new book edited by Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Martha Albertson Fineman and CSLR Senior Fellow Karen L. Worthington questions whether the United States is treating children properly by refusing to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The United States is the only country other than Somalia that has not ratified the CRC. READ MORE |
 Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South
Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy, eds.
(University of Georgia Press, 2009)
A new book edited by CSLR Senior Fellow Mary E. Odem explores the impact of the population shift taking place as more and more Latino immigrants find their work and homes in the U.S. South instead of the traditional immigration sites of the Southwest. READ MORE | |
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IN THEIR
OWN WORDS
 "I don't think that the U.S. Supreme Court has found a clear answer to the relationship between law and religion, because the present system proceeds on what I consider a false premise: the idea that law and religion can be separated."
- Johan D. van der VyverCSLR Senior Fellow and Director of the Law, Religion & Human Rights Project VIEW PROFILE |
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CSLR BROCHURE
Request or download a CSLR brochure. It provides information on the joint degree program, research projects, senior fellows, publications, and more.
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FACULTY EXPERTS
Search CSLR's faculty to a find an expert in human rights; the pursuit of happiness; history of marriage law; Islamic, Jewish, and Christian law; religious liberty; and much more HERE. |
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