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1 online resource (ix, 350 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, and Peter G. Danchin -- Imagining the Hebrew republic : Christian genealogies of religious freedom / Robert Yelle -- On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief / Yvonne Sherwood -- Believing in religious freedom / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- What is religious freedom supposed to free? / Webb Keane -- The power of pluralist thinking / Courtney Bender -- Reflections on the politics of religious freedom, with attention to Hawaii / Greg Johnson -- Traditional, African, religious, freedom? / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- The problem with the history of toleration / Evan Haefeli -- Religious minorities and citizenship in the long nineteenth century : some contexts of Jewish emancipation / David Sorkin -- Varieties of religious freedom and governance : a practical perspective / Robert W. Hefner -- Religious freedom between truth and tactic / Samuel Moyn -- Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics / Saba Mahmood -- Ceylon/Sri Lanka : the politics of religious freedom and the end of empire / Benjamin Schonthal -- Liberty as recognition / Nandini Chatterjee -- Postapartheid treatment of religious freedom in South Africa / Waheeda Amien -- Religious freedom in postrevolutionary Tunisia / Nadia Marzouki -- Beyond establishment / Lori G. Beaman -- The bishops, the sisters, and religious freedom / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- The world that Smith made / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Religious freedom in the Panopticon of Enlightenment rationality / Peter G. Danchin -- Everson's children / Ann Pellegrini -- Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age / Cécile Laborde -- Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan / Noah Salomon -- Is religion free? / Michael Lambek -- Religious freedom and the bind of suspicion in contemporary secularity / Hussein Ali Agrama -- Religious repression and religious freedom : an analysis of their contradictions in (post- )Soviet contexts / Mathijs Pelkmans -- Religious freedom's oxymoronic edge / Wendy Brown. |
| Summary |
In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response, and what forms of politics are enabled in the process? The fruits of the three-year Politics of Religious Freedom research project, the contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption-ubiquitous in policy circles-that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Taking a global perspective, the more than two dozen contributors delineate the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and social and political contexts. Together, the contributions make clear that the reasons for persecution are more varied and complex than is widely acknowledged, and that the indiscriminate promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities cited as falling short. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion and politics.
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Religion and politics. |
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Freedom of religion.
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Freedom of religion. |
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Electronic books.
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Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, 1950- editor.
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Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman, 1970- editor.
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Mahmood, Saba, 1962-2018, editor.
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Danchin, Peter G., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Politics of religious freedom. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015] 9780226248479 (DLC) 2014042990 (OCoLC)890676258 |
| ISBN |
9780226248646 (electronic book) |
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022624864X (electronic book) |
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9780226248479 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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022624847X (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780226248509 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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022624850X (paperback alkaline paper) |
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