Lesson 1 Reading From “Religious Freedom: Why Now?”

June 2, 2020

READING FOR LESSON 1

Selected excerpt from: Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right (The Witherspoon Institute Task Force on International Religious Freedom, 2012), by Timothy Samuel Shah (principal author), Matthew J. Franck (editor-in-chief), Thomas F. Farr (chairman of the Task Force).



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