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Religion amid Liberal Contestation

As many of us grapple with the new world “struggling to be born,” attention increasingly turns to phenomena that appear new—or newly consequential. One of these is the apparent “return” of religion to public life, both in the secularized societies of Europe and North America and in more historically “religious” societies across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Yet religion has also become increasingly visible within illiberal political projects. This series at the Illiberalism Studies Program examines the changing interaction between religion and liberalism: how religious traditions and identities are being transformed as the liberal arrangements that have regulated them lose legitimacy, and how these transformations are becoming intertwined with present-day contestations of liberal scripts.