Law and Religion as an Interdisciplinary Subject of Teaching and Research

This roundtable session emerges from and builds on “Law and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for the Humanities Scholar,” a two-week institute for higher education faculty funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The panelists include instructors from the Institute whose scholarship substantively engages with law and religion from different disciplinary backgrounds, including history, philosophy of religion, legal studies, and education. The panelists will discuss approaches for proficiently engaging with legal philosophy and legal practice in humanities scholarship; deepening interdisciplinary conversations about the intersections of law and religion today; and exploring opportunities for incorporating law and religion into the humanities classroom, especially at the undergraduate level. This timely conversation addresses the need to engage robust humanistic research and teaching about and informed by law in an era of complex legal, ethical, and moral questions posed by authoritarian politics, technological advancement, complex health disparities, and environmental catastrophe.