After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 8)

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. Introduction : Habits Of Pluralism / Pamela E. Klassen And Courtney Bender -- Pt. I. Law, Normativity, And The Constitution Of Religion. Ethics After Pluralism / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Pluralizing Religion : Islamic Law And The Anxiety Of Reasoned Deliberation / Anver M. Emon -- Religion Naturalized : The New Establishment / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- The Cultural Limits Of Legal Tolerance / Benjamin L. Berger -- Pt. Ii. Performing Religion After Pluralism. The Birth Of Theatrical Liberalism / Andrea Most -- The Perils Of Pluralism : Colonization And Decolonization In American Indian Religious History / Tracy Leavelle -- A Matter Of Interpretation : Dreams, Islam, And Psychology In Egypt / Amira Mittermaier -- The Temple Of Religion And The Politics Of Religious Pluralism : Judeo-christian America At The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair / J. Terry Todd -- Pt. Iii. The Ghosts Of Pluralism : Unintended Consequences Of Institutional And Legal Constructions. Native American Religious Freedom Beyond The First Amendment / Michael D. Mcnally -- Saving Darfur : Enacting Pluralism In Terms Of Gender, Genocide, And Militarized Human Rights / Rosemary R. Hicks -- What Is Religious Pluralism In A Monocultural Society? : Considerations From Postcommunist Poland / Geneviève Zubrzycki -- The Curious Attraction Of Religion In East German Prisons / Irene Becci. Edited By Courtney Bender And Pamela E. Klassen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. -- Amazon.com