Politics of Religious Freedom
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2024
362 pages
978-0-226-24864-6 (ISBN)
Description
In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. 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. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response, and what forms of politics are enabled in the process?
The fruits of the three-year Politics of Religious Freedom research project, the contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption-ubiquitous in policy circles-that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Taking a global perspective, the more than two dozen contributors delineate the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and social and political contexts. Together, the contributions make clear that the reasons for persecution are more varied and complex than is widely acknowledged, and that the indiscriminate promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities cited as falling short.
The fruits of the three-year Politics of Religious Freedom research project, the contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption-ubiquitous in policy circles-that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Taking a global perspective, the more than two dozen contributors delineate the different conceptions of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as their histories and social and political contexts. Together, the contributions make clear that the reasons for persecution are more varied and complex than is widely acknowledged, and that the indiscriminate promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the communities cited as falling short.
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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
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, and Peter G. Danchin
- Part 1: Religion
- Preface / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- Chapter 1. Imagining the Hebrew Republic: Christian Genealogies of Religious Freedom / Robert Yelle
- Chapter 2. On the Freedom of the Concepts of Religion and Belief / Yvonne Sherwood
- Chapter 3. Believing in Religious Freedom / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Chapter 4. What Is Religious Freedom Supposed to Free? / Webb Keane
- Chapter 5. The Power of Pluralist Thinking / Courtney Bender
- Chapter 6. Reflections on the Politics of Religious Freedom, with Attention to Hawaii / Greg Johnson
- Chapter 7. Traditional, African, Religious, Freedom? / Rosalind I. J. Hackett
- Part 2: History
- Preface / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
- Chapter 8. The Problem with the History of Toleration / Evan Haefeli
- Chapter 9. Religious Minorities and Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Some Contexts of Jewish Emancipation / David Sorkin
- Chapter 10. Varieties of Religious Freedom and Governance: A Practical Perspective / Robert W. Hefner
- Chapter 11. Religious Freedom between Truth and Tactic / Samuel Moyn
- Chapter 12. Religious Freedom, Minority Rights, and Geopolitics / Saba Mahmood
- Chapter 13. Ceylon/Sri Lanka: The Politics of Religious Freedom and the End of Empire / Benjamin Schonthal
- Chapter 14. Liberty as Recognition / Nandini Chatterjee
- Part 3: Law and Politics
- Preface / Peter G. Danchin
- Chapter 15. Postapartheid Treatment of Religious Freedom in South Africa / Waheeda Amien
- Chapter 16. Religious Freedom in Postrevolutionary Tunisia / Nadia Marzouki
- Chapter 17. Beyond Establishment / Lori G. Beaman
- Chapter 18. The Bishops, the Sisters, and Religious Freedom / Elizabeth A. Castelli
- Chapter 19. The World That Smith Made / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- Chapter 20. Religious Freedom in the Panopticon of Enlightenment Rationality / Peter G. Danchin
- Chapter 21. Everson's Children / Ann Pellegrini
- Part 4: Freedom
- Preface / Saba Mahmood
- Chapter 22. Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age / Cécile Laborde
- Chapter 23. Freeing Religion at the Birth of South Sudan / Noah Salomon
- Chapter 24. Is Religion Free? / Michael Lambek
- Chapter 25. Religious Freedom and the Bind of Suspicion in Contemporary Secularity / Hussein Ali Agrama
- Chapter 26. Religious Repression and Religious Freedom: An Analysis of Their Contradictions in (Post- )Soviet Contexts / Mathijs Pelkmans
- Chapter 27. Religious Freedom's Oxymoronic Edge / Wendy Brown
- Contributors
- Index
