Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker Series

The Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker Series on Religion and Conflict is an endowed lecture series that honors the life-long commitment of Maxine Besser Marshall ('76) and Jonathan Marshall to education, civil liberties, and world peace.

2023 Lecture

Religious Liberty after Dobbs

Cathleen Kaveny
Darald and Juliet Libby Professor
Boston College

What does freedom of religion and freedom of conscience look like in a post-Roe world?

For many years, the law has been accommodating the religiously-based moral claims of those opposed to abortion and contraception, despite the fact that the latter were established constitutional rights. This talk explores the new questions of conscience that have emerged post Dobbs v. Jackson, the June 2022 case that overturned Roe.

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Cathleen Kaveny (J.D., Ph.D. Yale University) is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor and jointly appointed to the Department of Theology and School of Law. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship of law, religion, and morality. A regular columnist for Commonweal, her books include “Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square” and “Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought.”

Complete Archive

Date

Title

Speaker

Links

2023

Religious Liberty after Dobbs

Cathleen Kaveny

Video

2022

The Soul as the Seat of Aspiration: A Philosophical-Historical Approach

Melvin Rogers

Video

2020

A Crisis in American Christianity? How Scholar-Practitioners Can Engage the Current Moment

David Gushee

Video

2019

Prosperity, Politic, and Pentecostal Power in Nigeria

Anthea Butler

Video

2018

In Search of Our Better Angels: A Story of America’s Civil Religion

Philip Gorski

Video

2017

Religion and Conflict: A View From the State Department

Shaun Casey

2016

Religious Violence in the Age of Enlightenment

Benjamin Kaplan

2014

America and the Religion of No Religion: Or How We Got to "I am Spiritual but Not Religious"

Jeffrey Kripal

2013

Lifestyles of the (Not So) Rich and Religious: Theological Prosperity in an Age of Economic Inequality

Jonathan L. Walton

2012

Taking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths

Katherine Marshall

2011

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Eliza Griswold

2010

Governing Religion: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Postsecular Age

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

2009

Private Faith/Public Faith: Religion and Government

Daisy Khan

2008

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

2007

Sacred and Secular Refigured: Identity, Piety and Politics in a Global Era

Jean Comaroff

2006

'If it Bleeds, it Leads': Does the Media Play a Role in Religious Violence?

Diane Winston

2005

Violence at the Threshold of the Sacred and the Secular

Rene Girard

2004

Democracy and the Limits of Pluralism

Raphael Cohen-Almagor