The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom /

The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom / / ed. by Jeffrey Edward Green, Heather J. Sharkey.

The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right. The volume starts from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom has never been easy and smooth. Across socie...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Adcock, Cassie,
Arriaga, Kristina,
Balmer, Randall,
Baraka Thomas, Jolyon,
Beaman, Lori G.,
Bielefeldt, Heiner,
Edward Green, Jeffrey,
Matz, Joshua,
Philpott, Daniel,
Schmidt, Leigh E.,
Schultz, William,
Sharkey, Heather J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Green, Jeffrey Edward,
Sharkey, Heather J.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Landscape of Religious Freedom
  • Part I. Ethical Arguments
  • 1. A Right of Its Own: A Case for the Human Right of Religious Freedom
  • 2. Can Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Be Universal?
  • Part II. The Social Contingency of Religious Freedom Disputes
  • 3. Microclimates of Religious Freedom: Global Norms Meet Local Conditions in Territorial Hawai`i and Occupied Japan
  • 4. The Protection of Religion as “Culture” and “History”: Three Case Studies
  • 5. “Baptism of Ire”: Atheist Plaintiffs and Irreligious Freedom in Postwar America
  • 6. The Heads or Tails of Cow Protection in India: Religious Freedom and Secular Agriculture
  • 7. Bad Faith: Religious Fraud and Religious Freedom in the “Mighty I AM” Case
  • Part III. The (Mis)application of Religious Freedom
  • 8. The Historian’s Pickaxe: Uncovering the Racist Origins of the Religious Right
  • 9. Female Genital Cutting in Michigan: How Advocates of the Dawoodi Bohra Distorted Religious Freedom to Control Women’s Sexual Conduct
  • 10. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of Religious Freedom in the United States
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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