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Religious Education in Schools: Ideas and Experiences from around the World
Ms. Zarrín Caldwell
Published by the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) in 2002, this booklet contains essays from educators around the world on the topic of…
An Encounter with Change: Opening Perspectives beyond Europe and the US (The International Association for Religious Freedom / 1969–1975)
Semiramis Del Carmen V. Rodríguez
This article explores a pivotal period in the history of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) between 1969 and 1975, highlighting a paradigm…
Newsletter of the Dutch Chapter
International Association for Religious Freedom, Dutch Chapter
The newsletter of the Dutch Chapter of the IARF.
Japan Chapter Monthly Letter
International Association for Religious Freedom, Japan Chapter
The newsletter of the Japan Chapter of the IARF, published in Japanese and English since 2021.
Selected Writings on Free Religion (自由宗教) & Other Subjects
Andrew James Brown, Shin’ichirō Imaoka, George M. Williams, Graham Driver
A revised 2025 edition of selected essays by Imaoka Shin’ichirō (1881–1988), a major Japanese thinker associated with Free Religion (jiyū shūkyō), liberal religion, and…
Is God an American? An Anthropological Perspective on the Missionary Work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics
Søren Hvalkof, Peter Aaby
Is God an American? presents a critical anthropological perspective on the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), also known as Wycliffe Bible Translators, and their…
40 Jahre Bund für Freies Christentum: Marksteine - Entwicklungen - Persönlichkeiten
Andreas Rössler
In dieser Abhandlung zeichnet Andreas Rössler die Geschichte des Bundes für Freies Christentum nach. Ausgehend von der Gründungsversammlung 1948 in Frankfurt am Main beschreibt…
Presuppositions and Principles of Historical Criticism
Free Religion Institute, Dr Kurt Bangert
Why are there fundamentalist as well as liberal interpretations of the Bible and the Koran? The answer has to do with hermeneutics or the…
The Science of Consciousness
Free Religion Institute, Prof. Mark Reimers
How do the billions of neurons in your head, looking like tangled rice noodles, give rise to consciousness? Can we even define consciousness? We…
IARF Information Service
The official information service of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF).
Religious Liberals in Council: An Appreciation of the Sixth International Congress of Religious Progress
Charles William Wendte
A detailed account and appreciation of the Sixth International Congress of Free Christians and Other Religious Liberals held in Paris, July 16–22, 1913. The…
Travaux du 6e Congrès International du Progrès Religieux (Chrétiens Progressifs et Libres-Croyants): Paris 1913
Emile Boutroux, Charles William Wendte
The official proceedings and program of the 6th International Congress of Religious Progress, held in Paris in July 1913. This volume includes the schedule…
Sammilana: Commemorative Booklet for the Anniversary Celebrations of URI and IARF
C.N.N. Raju, R. Srinagesh
This booklet was released on December 13, 2025, to mark the joint celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the International Association for Religious Freedom…
Von Emerson zu Thomas Mann: Beiträge zur Geschichte unitarischen Denkens in Amerika und Deutschland
Dan McKanan, Heinrich Detering
This volume presents contributions from the 2012 Göttingen Symposium, exploring the history of Unitarian thought in America and Germany. It investigates the intellectual connections…
What is Christianity?
Adolf Harnack
A series of lectures delivered by Adolf Harnack at the University of Berlin during the Winter-Term 1899-1900, translated into English by Thomas Bailey Saunders.…
Liberal Religious Thought at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Addresses and Papers at the International Council of Unitarian and other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers, held in London, May, 1901
International Association for Religious Freedom, W. Copeland Bowie
This book is a collection of addresses and papers presented at the inaugural meeting of the 'International Council of Unitarian and other Liberal Religious…
Religious Freedom of the Other - A Sikh Perspective
Free Religion Institute, Charanjit Singh
To mark Interfaith Week the British Chapter of the International Association for Religious Freedom presents: Religious Freedom of the Other - A Sikh perspective…
Consciousness
Free Religion Institute, Prof. Mark Reimers
In this four-part series, we will discuss various aspects of human consciousness as seen through two distinct lenses: the religious and philosophical traditions of…
How Do We Become Human(e)?
Free Religion Institute, Esther Suter
This question - How Do We Become Human(e) - has been growing in importance as so much changes in the world: in culture, politics,…
The Seat of Authority in Religion
James Martineau
This theological work by James Martineau explores the foundations of religious authority. Originally conceived as a series of papers between 1872 and 1875, the…
Freedom and Fellowship in Religion: Proceedings and Papers of the Fourth International Congress of Religious Liberals
International Association for Religious Freedom, Charles William Wendte
This volume contains the proceedings, addresses, and papers of the Fourth International Congress of Religious Liberals, held in Boston, September 22-27, 1907, under the…
Svami Vivekananda’s Gift of the Four Spiritual Paths
Free Religion Institute, Prof. George Mason Williams, Jr.
Because Svāmī Vivekānanda popularized the 4 spiritual practices (yogas) and paths (margas) in the West, we must thank him. Yet, IARF also must thank…
Vivekānanda’s Dilemma: Spiritual or Religious Hierarchies and the Four Spiritual Paths
Free Religion Institute, Prof. George Mason Williams, Jr.
We continue exploring interfaith dialogue practices as we see that even the understanding obtained in studying the Four Spiritual Paths involves both dangers and…
Brahmo Samaj, the Unitarian Union of the Khasi Hills, and the Chennai Unitarians
Free Religion Institute, Abhi Janamanchi
The flame of liberal religion, often called the Hindu Renaissance, is flickering in the face of global nationalistic use of religion. Are liberative voices…
