What the Study of Religion Can Teach Us About Psychedelics
As a scholar of religion who cares deeply about this psychedelic renaissance, I offer two points of caution from the perspective of my field.
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Read more: ‘Dignity’ and Biotechnology: Switzerland’s Sanctification of Nature ‘Dignity’ and Biotechnology: Switzerland’s Sanctification of Nature
By James Toomey Many countries are skeptical of biotechnology. Restrictions on cloning, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and genetic modification in agriculture are common. But perhaps no country goes quite as far as Switzerland. In the early 1990s, Switzerland added to its constitution by popular referendum two articles that restrict the use of biological technologies in its…
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Read more: The Right of the Child against Compulsory Religious Belonging The Right of the Child against Compulsory Religious Belonging
By Aobo Dong The recent bill in Iceland that would make nonmedical infant circumcision for boys a crime reminds me once again how international human rights standards are still ambiguous with regard to balancing the right of the child with the right of the religious parent. The bill, already sponsored by at least a quarter…
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Read more: Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems
By Yusuf Lenfest The philosopher in me understands that there are universal principles in logic, mathematics, and in basic scientific tenets such as the law of gravity. Be that as it may, the historian in me recognizes that we inherit epistemologies and ways of thinking from those before us, and from our own historical and…
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Read more: Book Launch: Law, Religion, and Health in the United States Book Launch: Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
Book Launch: Law, Religion, and Health in the United States September 27, 2017 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A (2019) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA In July 2017, Cambridge University Press will publish Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, co-edited by outgoing Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, Faculty Director I….
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Read more: Religious Hospitals Should Fully Fund Their Employees’ Pensions Religious Hospitals Should Fully Fund Their Employees’ Pensions
By Shailin Thomas In July, the Ninth Circuit held that Dignity Health, a faith-based hospital system in the southwest United States, was not exempt from the employee pension requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The hospital system decided in 1992 that it would consider itself a church for the purposes of ERISA,…
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Read more: Religion or Women? Religion or Women?
By Holly Fernandez Lynch In response to the religious objections levied against the contraceptives coverage mandate at issue in Hobby Lobby, Zubik, and gobs of other cases, many have argued that this was really a matter of subjugating women – not about religion per se. Well, now we have a test case: Vermont’s governor just signed…
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Read more: RFRA Jumps The Shark: The 8th Circuit Strikes Down the Contraception Accommodation (Part 2) RFRA Jumps The Shark: The 8th Circuit Strikes Down the Contraception Accommodation (Part 2)
By Gregory M. Lipper Thomas Jefferson famously said that “[i]t does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Note what Jefferson did not say: “my neighbor is entitled to pick my pocket and break my leg, so long…
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Read more: RFRA Jumps The Shark: The 8th Circuit Strikes Down the Contraception Accommodation (Part 1) RFRA Jumps The Shark: The 8th Circuit Strikes Down the Contraception Accommodation (Part 1)
By Gregory M. Lipper On Thursday, the Eighth Circuit all but assured that major parts of the Affordable Care Act will return to the Supreme Court’s chopping block. This time the issue is whether an accommodation—enabling religious objectors to opt out of offering contraceptive coverage to their employees—itself violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)….
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Read more: TODAY (5/8-9)! Law, Religion, and Health in America: 2015 Annual Conference TODAY (5/8-9)! Law, Religion, and Health in America: 2015 Annual Conference
2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference “Law, Religion, and Health in America” May 8-9, 2015 Wasserstein Hall Milstein East ABC Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly have come into conflict in the U.S. as health care has become both more secular and…