Statement on Research

In my current research I investigate the historical role of religion in early human rights movements and connect this predominantly 19th history with the contemporary situation of global human rights and religious liberty advocacy. With new data on human rights international nongovernmental organizations, I hope to show that religious voices were the catalyst behind early social movements but that human rights organizations that affiliate with religious worldviews face obstacles in a contemporary world society that views religion with some consternation. Nonetheless, I argue religion has the potential to contribute to human rights and social justice discourses in world society . . . Read more (PDF).

Publications

"Religious Organizations", 2007 (with John Boli), pp. 205-233 in Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman, eds. Globalization, Religion, and Culture. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

Under Review & Working Papers

"We’ve Always had Human Rights”: Religious Movements & Discursive Change in the Global Human Rights Regime (PDF). Under review at Review of Religious Research.

"Procedure for Data Extraction from Union of International Associations Yearbook Plus CD-Rom, 2001-02" (Not distributing as a result of legal counsel).

"Organizing Human Rights: the Case of Religious Liberty" (PDF).