Introduction / Jack Friedman and Timothy Samuel Shah

Are human beings naturally religious? / Christian Smith

Are human beings naturally religious? A response to Christian Smith / Phil Zuckerman

On the naturalness of religion and religious freedom / Justin L. Barrett

Sacred versus secular values: cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion and their implications for religious freedom / Richard Sosis and Jordan Kiper

Theism, naturalism, and rationality / Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga on theism, naturalism, and rationality / Ernest Sosa

Research on religion and health: time to be born again? / Linda K. George

Religion, health, and happiness: an epidemiologist's perspective / Jeff Levin

Why there is a natural right to religious freedom / Nicholas Wolterstorff

Religious liberty, human dignity, and human goods / Christopher Tollefsen

Human rights, public reason, and American democracy: a response to Nicholas Wolterstorff / Stephen Macedo.

Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume present individual, sometimes opposing points of view on the naturalness of religion thesis and its implications for religious freedom. Topics include the epistemological foundations of religion, the relationship between religion and health, and a discussion of the philosophical foundations of religious freedom as a natural, universal right, drawing implications for the normative role of religion in public life. By challenging dominant intellectual paradigms, such as the secularization thesis and the Enlightenment view of religion, the volume opens the door to a powerful and provocative reconceptualization of religious freedom