After Pluralism - Reimagining Religious Engagement

Informationen zum Autor Courtney Bender is associate professor of religion at Columbia University and the author of The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Pamela E. Klassen is associate professor of religion at the University of Toronto and the author of Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine! Healing! and Liberal Christianity. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Habits of PluralismPamela E. Klassen and Courtney BenderPart I. Law! Normativity! and the Constitution of Religion 1. Ethics After PluralismJanet R. Jakobsen2. Pluralizing Religion: Islamic Law and the Anxiety of Reasoned DeliberationAnver M. Emon3. Religion Naturalized: The New EstablishmentWinnifred Fallers Sullivan4. The Cultural Limits of Legal ToleranceBenjamin L. BergerPart II. Performing Religion After Pluralism 5. The Birth of Theatrical LiberalismAndrea Most6. The Perils of Pluralism: Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious HistoryTracy Leavelle7. A Matter of Interpretation: Dreams! Islam! and Psychology in EgyptAmira Mittermaier8. The Temple of Religion and the Politics of Religious Pluralism: Judeo-Christian America at the 1939-1940 New York World's FairJ. Terry ToddPart III. The Ghosts of Pluralism: Unintended Consequences of Institutional and Legal Constructions 9. Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First AmendmentMichael D. McNally10. Saving Darfur: Enacting Pluralism in Terms of Gender! Genocide! and Militarized Human RightsRosemary R. Hicks11. What Is Religious Pluralism in a "Monocultural" Society? Considerations from Postcommunist PolandGenevieve Zubrzycki12. The Curious Attraction of Religion in East German PrisonsIrene BecciSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex ...

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• Authors: Courtney Bender, Courtney (Associate Professor Bender, Courtney (EDT) Bender, Courtney Klassen Bender
• Assisted by: Courtney Bender (Editor), Courtney (Associate Professor Bender (Editor), Bender Courtney (Editor), Pamela Klassen (Editor), Pamela E. Klassen (Editor), Klassen Pamela E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2010
• EAN: 9780231152327
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15232-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Religion, Culture, and Public
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Religion & beliefs, Social groups: religious groups and communities