IS THE Christian cross primarily a religious symbol, a cultural one, a badge of identity, or what? That is one of the questions addressed in an interesting paper that I have just been reading by two law-and-religion scholars, Pasquale Annicchino of the European University Institute (EUI) and Frederick Mark Gedicks of Brigham Young University.
Erasmus | The Cross, culture and the law
Onward secular soldiers
Religions are happy to play the "cultural" card when it suits them, some say
More from Erasmus
A high-noon moment for Pope Francis over the Amazon
Ideological rifts widen as Catholic bishops ponder endangered forests and married priests
Why American Muslims lean leftwards for 2020
Islam’s followers are not so much firebrands as nomads in search of a home
Taking sides in the Orthodox Church’s battles over Russia and Ukraine
Conflicts within Slavic Orthodoxy are having some strange side effects