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On
the Nature of Religious Liberty
Mr. Kevin J. Hasson, President and General Counsel
of The Becket Fund
Issues of the Secularization of Society
as a Development within Christian Cultural Tradition
Professor Wolfhart Pannenberg, University
of Munich
State-Imposed Atheism
Professor Tomas Halik, Charles University, Prague
Communism
as Atheism
Professor Ryszard Legutko, Jagiellonian University,
Krakow
State-Imposed Religion:
Neo-theocracy and the Universality of Religious Liberty
Fr.
David Maria Jaeger, OFM, Pontifical Athenaeum Antonianum
Religious
Freedom and the Original Understanding of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Professor
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard University
Challenges
and Promises of the 21st Century
Professor
Alan Mittleman, Muhlenberg College
Challenges
and Promises of the 21st Century
Lawrence
Uzzell, Director, Keston Institute
State-Imposed
Secularism as a Potential Pitfall of Liberal Democracy
His Eminence Francis
Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago
State-Imposed
Secularism as a Potential Pitfall of Liberal Democracy
Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, University
of Chicago
Summation
Professor
Robert George, Princeton University
