Winnifred F Sullivan
Associate Professor,
Director of the Law and Religion Program
B.A., Cornell University, 1971
J.D., University of Chicago, 1976
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
715 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-3010
Assistant:
Mary Voglmayr, 622 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-5984
Biography:
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan studies the intersection of religion and law in the modern period, particularly the phenomenology of modern religion as it is shaped in its encounter with law.
In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions (1994); The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, 2005) and Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton, 2009).
Professor Sullivan serves on the editorial board of the Religion and Society series at deGruyter; and is currently on the executive committee of the National Association for the Study of Religion, the American Society for the Study of Religion and the Law, Religion and Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion. Together with Robert Yelle (U of Memphis), she was consultant on the legal entries for the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion and, together with Robert Yelle and Matteo Taussig-Rubbo (UB Law), organizer of a pair of conferences entitled, "Re-describing the Sacred/Secular Divide: The Legal Story" sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law and Public Policy in 2008 and 2009, forthcoming as an edited volume.
During the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Sullivan was the Lilly Foundation fellow at the National Humanities Center. She has also been a visiting fellow at the American Bar Foundation and at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago.
Professor Sullivan lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad. In September 2005, she delivered the John Randolph Tucker Memorial Lecture at Washington & Lee University Law School: Comparing Religions, Legally. In April 2008 she served as Mattingly Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Nebraska Wesleyan University. During the 2009-2010 academic year, among other public lectures, she will be presenting papers at the British Academy in London and the Annual McDowell Conference on Philosophy and Social Policy in Washington DC.
Selected Publications:
Books
Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton University Press, 2009)
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Harvard 1994)
Articles
We Are All Religious Now. Again., Social Research 76 (forthcoming 2009)
Analyzing the Trial: Interdisciplinary Methods (with Robert Burns, Marianne Constable, Elizabeth Mertz, and Justin Richland) PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31:2 (2009) [http://www.aaanet.org/sections/apla/polar.html]
Requiem for the Establishment Clause, Constitutional Commentary 25:101 (2009) (Review of Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2: Establishment and Fairness (Princeton 2008))
The New Disestablishment, Religion and American Culture: a Journal of Interpretation vol. 18: 21-26 (Winter 2008)
Rethinking Secularism: The New Universalism and We Are All Religious Now, The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere (SSRC Blog, posted 26 and 27, November 2007)
Comparing Religions, Legally, Washington and Lee Law Review vol. 63: 913-928 (2006)
"The Conscience of Contemporary Man": Reflections on U.S. v. Seeger and Dignitatis Humanae, U.S. Catholic Historian vol. 24: 107-123 (Winter 2006)
A Curvature of Social Space (with Rosalind Hackett) Culture and Religion vol. 6(1): 1-15 (2005) (Introduction to Special Issue on Religion, Law and Human Rights)
Normative Pluralism: Religion and Law in the Twenty-First Century, Religion vol. 35: 31-40 (2005)
Religious Freedom and the Rule of Law: Exporting Modernity in a Postmodern World?, Missippi College Law Review vol. 22(2): 173-183 (2004)
Neutralizing Religion or What is the Opposite of "Faith-Based"?, History of Religions Journal vol. 41: 369-390 (2002) (reprinted in Religion: Beyond a Concept (H. deVries, editor) (Fordham University Press, 2008))
Indifferentism Redux: Reflections on Catholic Lobbying in the Supreme Court, Notre Dame Law Review 76:993-1018 (April 2001), festschrift volume for the Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr. Introduction (with Frank Reynolds) to special issue on law and religion. Law and Social Inquiry 26:1-7 (February, 2001)
Judging Religion, Marquette Law Review 81:2 (1998)
Finding a True Story of American Religion: Comments on L.H. LaRue's Constitutional Law as Fiction: Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority, Washington & Lee University Law Review 53 (1996)
Introduction and >Competing Theories of Religion and Law in the Supreme Court of the United States: an Hasidic Case in special volume entitled "Religion, Law and the Construction of Identities," Numen 43 (May 1996)
Dis-sing Religion: Is Religion Trivialized in American Public Discourse? (Review Article of Stephen Carter, The Culture of Disbelief). Journal of Religion (January 1995)
Chapters
Religion Under Bureaucracy, in Religion and Identity Politics: 'Acceptable' Religion and its Negative Others (Tim Jensen and Olav Hammer, editors) (forthcoming 2010)
Re-forming the Secular?: Theological Double-Talk and "Faith-Based" Social Services, in Fundementalism and the Rule of Law (M. Hamilton, editor) (forthcoming)
The Way We Live Now: Religion Unbound, After Pluralism (C. Bender & P. Klassen, editors)(Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2009)
Varieties of Legal Secularism” in Linell Cady and Elizabeth Hurd, eds., Secularism and Politics in a Global Age (forthcoming Palgrave 2009)
Religion Naturalized: The New Establishment” in Courtney Bender and Pamela Klassen, eds., After Pluralism (forthcoming 2009 Columbia).
Comparing Law Comparing Religion, Introducing Religion: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Z. Smith (W. Braun & R.T.McCutcheon, editors) (Equinox Publishers, 2008)
Overview (to Law and Religion entries) (with Robert Yelle) Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillian Reference USA, 2nd edition, 2005) (translated into Portuguese and forthcoming in Rever (online Brazilian journal))
Law and Religion, The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics (W. Schweiker, editor) (Blackwell, 2005)
Die neuen US Gesetze zu "Charitable Choice" und die Regelungen zu den "Faith-Based" Organisationen, Die Verrechtlichte Religion: Der Öffentlichkeitsstatus von Religionsgemeinschaften (H.G. Kippenberg & G.F. Schuppert, editors) (translated by C. Bergmann) (Mohr Siebeck, 2004)
Religious Freedom and the Rule of Law: A Modernist Myth in a Postmodern World?, Religion Im Kulturellen Diskurs (Festschrift volume for Hans G. Kippenberg) (B. Luchesi & K. von Stuckrad, editors) (De Gruyter, 2004)
Beyond Church and State, New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Volume 2: Textual Comparative, Sociological and Cognitive Approaches (P. Antes, A.W. Geertz & R.R.Warne, editors)(De Gruyter, 2004)
The State, Themes in American Religion and Culture (P. Goff & P. Harvey, editors) (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
A New Discourse and Practice, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology (Stephen Feldman, editor) (New York University Press, 2000)
American Religion is Naturally Comparative, in A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age (Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray, editors) (University of California Press, 1999)
Blog Posts
Post-separationism Anxiety” Patheos
-- “You Gotta Have Faith-Based Politics”. Religion Dispatches
Waking up to still being a faith-based nation”. The Immanent Frame
Reforming culture”. The Immanent Frame
Reviews
Benjamin J. Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Journal of Religion 89 (Spring 2009): 264-65
The Stillborn God: A Cautionary Tale?, The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere (SSRC Blog, posted 10 December 2007) (reviewing Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God: A cautionary tale? (2007))
Church and Overstated: Noah Feldman has Big Plans for the Constitution's Establishment Clause, Legal Affairs (January/February 2006) (reviewing Noah Feldman, Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (2005))
