1 We would like to acknowledge the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion & International Affairs for their support for this project. A special thanks to Toby Volkman of the Foundation for her support for the project and thoughtful contributions to the conversation. For more on the project see http://politics-of-religious-freedom.berkeley.edu/.

2 Other such efforts to reconceive the meaning of religious liberty include Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005)Google Scholar; Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mahmood, Saba, “Religious Freedom, the Minority Question, and Geopolitics in the Middle East,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54, no. 2 (2012): 418–46CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Danchin, Peter, “The Emergence and Structure of Religious Freedom in International Law Reconsidered,” Journal of Law and Religion 23, no. 2 (2008): 455–534CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “Religion, Law and Human Rights,” ed. Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers and Hackett, Rosalind, special issue, Culture and Religion 6, no. 1 (2005)Google Scholar; Moyn, Samuel, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)Google Scholar; Bender, Courtney and Klassen, Pamela E., eds., After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)Google Scholar; van der Vyver, Johan D. and Witte, John Jr., Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (Dordrecht, NL: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996)Google Scholar; Kaplan, Benjamin J., Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)Google Scholar; Keane, Webb, Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)Google Scholar; and Abu-Lughod, Lila, “Against Universals: The Dialects of (Women's) Human Rights and Human Capabilities,” in Rethinking the Human, Molina, J. Michelle and Swearer, Donald K., eds. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 69–94Google Scholar.

3 Other papers from these workshops and conferences are available in “Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Genealogies,” ed. Mahmood, Saba and Danchin, Peter G., special issue, South Atlantic Quarterly 113, no. 1 (2014)Google Scholar; a collection of essays at the Social Science Research Council's online discussion forum: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, “Politics of Religious Freedom,” The Immanent Frame (blog), accessed July 10, 2014, http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/the-politics-of-religious-freedom; Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Peter Danchin, and Saba Mahmood, eds., Politics of Religious Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming); and a special issue of the Maryland International Law Journal (forthcoming).

4 Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, “The Impossibility of Religious Freedom,” The Immanent Frame (blog), July 8, 2014, http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2014/07/08/impossibility-of-religious-freedom/.

5 See Haefeli, Evan, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.