International Institute for Religious Freedom

Religious Communities as Good Neighbors in a Post-Secular Global Society

A speech at the Abrahamic Faiths Initiative (AFI), online December 1, 2020, U.S. State Department

Four themes should inform how religious communities can be good neighbors:

(1) respect one another’s religions and symbols;

(2) avoid religious nationalism;

(3) seek to distinguish universal ethical principles from particular religious be-
liefs;

(4) react peacefully to conversions to and from religions.