After Pluralism Reimagining Religious Engagement

Name: After Pluralism Reimagining Religious Engagement
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ISBN: 9780231152334

ISBN-10: 0231152337

ISBN-13: 9780231152334

Edition: 2010

Authors: Courtney Bender, Pamela Klassen

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Religious pluralism has become a powerful ideal in contemporary life, defining the landscape of religious diversity while prescribing modes of acting across difference. Taking this ideal as a starting place, the contributors to this volume treat pluralism as historically and ideologically produced and as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique interrogates the possibility that religious difference itself is framed as a problem only pluralism can solve.Working comparatively across nations and disciplines, these essays explore pluralism as a "term of art" setting the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.94" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Habits of Pluralism




Law, Normativity, and the Constitution of Religion



Ethics After Pluralism




Pluralizing Religion: Islamic Law and the Anxiety of Reasoned Deliberation




Religion Naturalized: The New Establishment




The Cultural Limits of Legal Tolerance




Performing Religion After Pluralism



The Birth of Theatrical Liberalism




The Perils of Pluralism: Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious History




A Matter of Interpretation: Dreams, Islam, and Psychology in Egypt




The Temple of Religion and the Politics of Religious Pluralism: Judeo-Christian America at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair




The Ghosts of Pluralism: Unintended Consequences of Institutional and Legal Constructions



Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment




Saving Darfur: Enacting Pluralism in Terms of Gender, Genocide, and Militarized Human Rights




What Is Religious Pluralism in a "Monocultural" Society? Considerations from Postcommunist Poland




The Curious Attraction of Religion in East German Prisons



Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index