Politics of Religious Freedom

Informationen zum Autor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is professor in and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is also an affiliated professor of law at Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and (by courtesy) Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Saba Mahmood is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California! Berkeley. Peter G. Danchin is professor of law and director of the International and Comparative Law Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. Klappentext 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. What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response! and what forms of politics are enabled in the process? Zusammenfassung 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. What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response! and what forms of politics are enabled in the process?

Product details

• Authors: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers Hurd Sullivan
• Assisted by: Peter G. Danchin (Editor), Danchin Peter G. (Editor), Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Editor), Saba Mahmood (Editor), Mahmood Saba (Editor), Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2015
• EAN: 9780226248479
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24847-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Comparative, Religion & politics, comparative law, Religion and Politics, Human rights, civil rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Religious freedom / freedom of worship