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  Speakers:	Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School
  	Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
  	Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School
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  Three experts discuss the interaction between religion and state around the world. Columbia University’s Philip Hamburger points out one can hardly discuss a society without getting into its religion. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, professor of law at Emory University Law School, says a secular state is a prerequisite for him to be able to practice his religion of choice. But CFR’s Noah Feldman says the idea of a secular state is not a universal value. He says if a state chooses to have an official state religion, provided it grants every individual the basic human right to religious liberty, “I think that’s just fine.”

   

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