Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions
In: Symposia on Democracy
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Theo-democratic Vision of Religious Fundamentalists -- SECTION I: THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE -- Exercise Clauses: Introduction and Discussion -- Explaining the Complexities of Religion and State in the United States: Separation, Integration, and Accommodation -- Public Funds and Religious Schools: The Next Prayer Debate? -- The Rise of State Law Sanctuary for Minority Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Fall of Federal Constitutional Protection of Nonmainstream Faiths -- SECTION II: HOLY AND UNHOLY WAR: RELIGION, VIOLENCE, AND NONVIOLENCE -- Religious (Ill)Literacy and (Un)Civil Liberties in the United States: Past and Present -- The Search for Meaning in Islam: Between Violence and Nonviolence -- Islam at the Crossroads of Extremism and Moderation: New Science, Global Peace, and Democracy -- The White Man's Wounded Knee, or, Whose Holy War Is This, Anyway? A Cautionary Tale -- Yesterday's Love, Today's Ruins: Walker Percy's Apocalyptic Vision -- SECTION III: A DILEMMA FOR DEMOCRACY: THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AND THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM -- Fundamentalism, Democracy, and the Contesting of Meaning -- Dilemmas of Turkish Democracy: The Encounter between Kemalist Laicism and Islamism in 1990s Turkey -- Religious Fundamentalism and Democratic Social Practices: Or, Why a Democracy Needs Fundamentalists, and Why They Need a Democracy -- On Naming Religious Extremists: The "Fundamentalist" Factor -- SECTION IV: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: CHALLENGES TO THE FREE EXERCISE OF DIVERSE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY -- Exceptionalism and the Immigrant Experience: America, an Unfinished Project? -- Goddess Amba Unwelcome in Edison, New Jersey: Report of a Town's Xenophobic Conflation of Race and Religion.