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The changing terrain of religious freedom
Title
The changing terrain of religious freedom / edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green.
ISBN
9780812253375
081225337X
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Physical Description
viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume offers theoretical, historical, and jurisprudential perspectives on religious freedom, while examining what it may entail as an experience, a value, and a right. We start from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom never has been easy or smooth. Across societies, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise, balancing, and wrangling with the law. On rocky ground-to continue the environmental metaphor-people have had to push through or maneuver around obstacles, or struggle to keep their footing. Drawing examples from the United States and the world, the essays in this collection illustrate these challenges. They sketch the contours of current debates while showing how the landscape has shifted"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 19, 2021
Series
Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. The landscape of religious freedom / Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green
Chapter 1. A right of its own : a case for the human right of religious freedom / Daniel Philpott
Chapter 2. Can Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) be universal? / Heiner Bielefeldt
Chapter 3. Microclimates of religious freedom : global norms meet local conditions in Territorial Hawaii and Occupied Japan / Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Chapter 4. The protection of religion as "culture" and "history" : three case studies / Lori G. Beaman
Chapter 5. "Baptism of ire" : atheist plaintiffs and irreligious freedom in postwar America / Leigh E. Schmidt
Chapter 6. The heads or tails of cow protection in India : religious freedom and secular agriculture / Cassie Adcock
Chapter 7. Bad faith : religious fraud and religious freedom in the "Mighty I AM" case / William Schultz
Chapter 8. The historian's pickaxe : uncovering the racist origins of the religious right / Randall Balmer
Chapter 9. Female genital cutting in Michigan : how advocates of the Dawoodi Bohra distorted religious freedom to control women's sexual conduct / Kristina Arriaga
Chapter 10. The U.S. Supreme Court and the future of religious freedom in the United States / Joshua Matz.
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