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. 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--Broadway plays! Polish Holocaust memorials! Egyptian dream interpretations! German jails! and legal theories--and demonstrate its shaping of political and social interaction in surprising and powerful ways. Throughout! they question assumptions underlying pluralism's discourse and its influence on the legal decisions that shape modern religious practice. Contributors do more than deconstruct this theory; they tackle what comes next.Having established the genealogy and effects of pluralism! they generate new questions for engaging the collective worlds and multiple registers in which religion operates. 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 (Associate Professor Bender, Courtney (EDT) Bender, Courtney Klassen Bender
• Assisted by: Courtney Bender (Editor), Bender Courtney (Editor), Pamela E. Klassen (Editor), Klassen Pamela E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2010
• EAN: 9780231152334
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15233-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• 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