The Tortuous Course of Religious Freedom

Steven D. Smith*

This Essay, written for a conference at Notre Dame on Dignitatis Humanae, considers new challenges to and issues for religious freedom that have arisen recently in a world significantly changed from that of the 1960s, when the Declaration was first issued.

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*Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego. I thank Larry Alexander and Maimon Schwarzschild for helpful comments on an earlier draft. I benefitted as well from comments and discussion at the Notre Dame conference on Dignitatis Humanae for which this Essay was prepared.