Religion scholar boycotts BYU conference to protest university policy

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(RNS) Brigham Young University has convened its annual International Law and Religion Symposium this week, featuring around 90 scholars, political leaders and jurists from more than three dozen nations.

But that number will not include Mark Juergensmeyer, a past president of the American Academy of Religion and the author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence.