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, Politics, 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