Member Profiles
Timothy Shah
University of Dallas
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University (2002)
A.B., Harvard University (1992)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “A Strangely Neglected Response by Jacques Maritain to His Critics on the Subject of Liberal Democracy: A Translation and Interpretation,” with Miriam Shah.
(2023) “How to Resist the Siren Song of Catholic Integralism: Lessons from Jacques and Raïssa Maritain.”
Publications
Books
(2012) Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right. Witherspoon Institute.
Edited Books
(2018) Under Caesar’s Sword: Christian Responses to Persecution, with Daniel Philpott. Cambridge University Press.
(2018) Homo Religiosus? Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in
Human Experience. with Jack Friedman. Cambridge University Press.
Academic Articles
(2023) ““Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations,” with C. Holland Taylor. Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 203: 78-98.
(2022) “The Other Invisible Hand: How Freedom of Religion or Belief
Fosters Pro-Social and Pro-Developmental Outcomes for the Poor,” with Rebecca Shah in What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities, ed. M. Tadros. Institute of Development Studies.
(2021) “India’s Other Religious Freedom Problems,” Religions 12: 490.
(2021) “Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an “Essential Service” to the Common Good,” Religions 12: 414.
(2016) “Evangelicalism and the Two Pluralisms,” with G. Forster, Soc 53: 142–152.
(2015) “Secular Militancy as an Obstacle to Peacebuilding,” in Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, eds. Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby, and David
Little. Oxford University Press.
(2012) “Response to William Cavanaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jeffrey Haynes and David Martin,” with Daniel Philpott and Monica Duffy Toft, Politics, Religion & Ideology 13 (3): 403–7.
(2004) “The Bible and the Ballot Box: Evangelicals and Democracy in the “Global South,” SAIS Review of International Affairs 24 (2): 117-132
(2004) “Christianity and Democracy: The Pioneering Protestants,” with Robert D. Woodberry, Journal of Democracy 15 (2): 47-61.
(2000) “Making the Christian World Safe for Liberalism: From Grotius to Rawls,” Political Quarterly 71: 121-139.
(1998) “Disability and dignity, and human rights,” Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 15 (4): 20-24.