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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788118603321

Titolo

Decentering discussions on religion and state : emerging narratives, challenging perspectives / / edited by Sargon George Donabed and Autumn Quezada-Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

322/.1

Soggetti

Religion and state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Philosophy, Sectarianism, and Development and Questioning the Status Quo in the United States; Chapter One: The Sectarian Friend; Chapter Two: "Their Supervision Was Temporal Not Ecclesiastical"; Chapter Three: "It Forbids You the Right to Do Right"; Chapter Four: "Soul Libertie" versus the Sons and Daughters of Eire; Chapter Five: Altering Landscapes; Chapter Six: Stories the State Tells Itself; Chapter Seven: Tempest in a Teacup; Chapter Eight: Fighting the Winds of Change

Part II: Twentieth-Century Reflections: Theory, Global Narratives, and New AgencyChapter Nine: Silence and the City; Chapter Ten: Visions of Al-Quds; Chapter Eleven: Confronting the "Normative Abyss"; Chapter Twelve: Political Functions of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States (1945-1991); Chapter Thirteen: Sacred Confronts Profane; Chapter Fourteen: Church-State Relations in the "New Egypt"; Chapter Fifteen: State-Sponsored Religion as Impediment to Assimilation and Immigration; Chapter Sixteen: Preventing Religious Genocide; Index; About the Editors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This volume offers readers new openings through which to understand critical but overlooked ideas about religion</span><span>-</span><span>state relations. It decenters discussions away from national narratives allowing for emerging voices at the individual and community levels, highlighting interactions of



people with the state over questions about religion.</span></span>