Politics of Religious Freedom / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, Peter G. Danchin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danchin, Peter G., Editor.

Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman, 1970- Editor.

Mahmood, Saba, 1962-2018, Editor.

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, 1950- Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Freedom of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

Preface

Chapter One. Imagining the Hebrew Republic

Chapter Two. On the Freedom of the Concepts of Religion and Belief

Chapter Three. Believing in Religious Freedom

Chapter Four. What Is Religious Freedom Supposed to Free?

Chapter Five. The Power of Pluralist Thinking

Chapter Six. Reflections on the Politics of Religious Freedom, with Attention to Hawaii

Chapter Seven. Traditional, African, Religious, Freedom?

Chapter Eight. The Problem with the History of Toleration

Chapter Nine. Religious Minorities and Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter Ten. Varieties of Religious Freedom and Governance

Chapter Eleven. Religious Freedom between Truth and Tactic

Chapter Twelve. Religious Freedom, Minority Rights, and Geopolitics

Chapter Thirteen. Ceylon/Sri Lanka

Chapter Fourteen. Liberty as Recognition

Chapter Fifteen. Postapartheid Treatment of Religious Freedom in South Africa

Chapter Sixteen. Religious Freedom in Postrevolutionary Tunisia

Chapter Seventeen. Beyond Establishment

Chapter Eighteen. The Bishops, the Sisters, and Religious Freedom

Chapter Nineteen. The World That Smith Made

Chapter Twenty. Religious Freedom in the Panopticon of Enlightenment Rationality

Chapter Twenty-One. Everson's Children

Chapter Twenty-Two. Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age

Chapter Twenty-Three. Freeing Religion at the Birth of South Sudan

Chapter Twenty-Four. Is Religion Free?

Chapter Twenty-Five. Religious Freedom and the Bind of Suspicion in Contemporary Secularity

Chapter Twenty-Six. Religious Repression and Religious Freedom

Chapter Twenty-Seven. Religious Freedom's Oxymoronic Edge

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226248646

022624864X

OCLC:

912422259