Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Theo-democratic Vision of Religious Fundamentalists; SECTION I: THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE; Exercise Clauses: Introduction and Discussion; Explaining the Complexities of Religion and State in the United States: Separation, Integration, and Accommodation; Public Funds and Religious Schools: The Next Prayer Debate?; The Rise of State Law Sanctuary for Minority Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Fall of Federal Constitutional Protection of Nonmainstream Faiths |
|
SECTION II: HOLY AND UNHOLY WAR: RELIGION, VIOLENCE, AND NONVIOLENCEReligious (Ill)Literacy and (Un)Civil Liberties in the United States: Past and Present; The Search for Meaning in Islam: Between Violence and Nonviolence; Islam at the Crossroads of Extremism and Moderation: New Science, Global Peace, and Democracy; The White Man's Wounded Knee, or, Whose Holy War Is This, Anyway? A Cautionary Tale; Yesterday's Love, Today's Ruins: Walker Percy's Apocalyptic Vision; SECTION III: A DILEMMA FOR DEMOCRACY: THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AND THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM |
|
Fundamentalism, Democracy, and the Contesting of MeaningDilemmas of Turkish Democracy: The Encounter between Kemalist Laicism and Islamism in 1990s Turkey; Religious Fundamentalism and Democratic Social Practices: Or, Why a Democracy Needs Fundamentalists, and Why They Need a Democracy; On Naming Religious Extremists: The "Fundamentalist" Factor; SECTION IV: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: CHALLENGES TO THE FREE EXERCISE OF DIVERSE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY; Exceptionalism and the Immigrant Experience: America, an Unfinished Project? |
|
Goddess Amba Unwelcome in Edison, New Jersey: Report of a Town's Xenophobic Conflation of Race and ReligionLiberalism and the Challenge of Multicultural Accommodation; Diverse Religious Practices and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance; Dealing with the Unfinished Business of America: Fighting Bias, Bigotry, and Racism in the Twenty-first Century; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
|
|
Freedom of religion -- United States -- Congresses
|
|
Religious fundamentalism -- Congresses
|
|
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
|
|
Democracy -- Religious aspects
|
|
Freedom of religion
|
|
Religious fundamentalism
|
|
Violence -- Religious aspects
|
|
United States
|
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
ISBN |
1306304113 |
|
9781306304115 |
|
9781612773933 |
|
1612773931 |
|