Dan Philpott is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
He earned a Ph.D. in 1996 from Harvard University and specialize in religion and global politics, focusing on religious freedom, reconciliation, the political behavior of religious actors, and Christian political theology.
His books include Revolutions in Sovereignty (Princeton, 2001), God’s Century: Resurgent Religion in Global Politics (Norton, 2011, coauthored with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah), Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012) and Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World (Oxford, 2019).
He is currently writing a book that sets forth a political theology based on a Christian concept of justice. A Lay Dominican, he has promoted reconciliation as an activist in Kashmir, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and the Catholic Church with respect to clergy abuse.
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