Last week, the European Center for Populism Studies hosted a virtual workshop “Populism, Freedom of Religion and Illiberal Regimes.” I was one of the speakers. My talk was on the legal struggle against Senate Bill 10, recent Texas legislation to require that a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments is placed in every public school classroom in the state. Here’s how they described my presentation:
Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen, First Unitarian Universalist of Houston and Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, explored how religious pluralism and Christian nationalism collide in contemporary US politics, with Texas as a case study. Drawing on a recent lawsuit filed by members of his own congregation, Dr. Bossen argued that struggles over religion and law in the United States are not merely contests between religion and secularism but rather between competing theological and political visions of religion in public life.
The whole thing is available here.
