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.
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.
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