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After pluralism : reimagining religious engagement / edited by Courtney Bender and Pamela E. Klassen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion, culture, and public life.
- Religion, Culture, and Public Life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious pluralism.
- Pluralism.
- Religions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that only pluralism can solve. Working comparatively across nations and disciplines, the essays in After Pluralism explore pluralism as a ""term of art"" that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter, and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism's ideals in diverse sites
- Contents:
- contents; acknowledgments; introduction - Habits of Pluralism; Part I - Law, Normativity, and the Constitution of Religion; 1. ethics after pluralism; 2. pluralizing religion; 3. religion naturalized; 4. the cultural limits of legal tolerance; Part II - Performing Religion After Pluralism; 5. the birth of theatrical liberalism; 6. the perils of pluralism; 7. a matter of interpretation; 8. the temple of religion and the politics of religious pluralism; Part III - The Ghosts of Pluralism; 9. native american religious freedom beyond the first amendment; 10. saving darfur
- 11. what is religious pluralism in a "monocultural" society?12. the curious attraction of religion in east german prisons; selected bibliography; contributors; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231527262
- 0231527268
- OCLC:
- 818854439
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