Erasmus | The Cross, culture and the law

Onward secular soldiers

Religions are happy to play the "cultural" card when it suits them, some say

By B.C.

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.

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