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Chapter 6 -- ""A Lot of Blood Is Unrevenged Here"": Moral Disintegration in Post-War ChechnyaChapter 7 -- Morality, Utopia, Discipline: New Religious Movements and Soviet Culture; Chapter 8 -- Constructing Moralities around the Tsarist Family; Chapter 9 -- St. Xenia as a Patron of Female Social Suffering: An Essay on Anthropological Hagiology; Chapter 10 -- Built with Gold or Tears? Moral Discourses on Church Construction and the Role of Entrepreneurial Donations; Afterword -- Multiple Moralities, Multiple Secularisms; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Confessions: the composite relationship of the secular and the religious -- The established and the outsider of the European integration? -- Immigration without integration -- How Europe's secularism became contentious: mosques, imams, and issues -- Prisoners of the mosque -- Pim Fortuyn versus Islam: Muslims, gays and the media's reliance on conflict -- The public intellectual versus Islam: a year of sex and rhetoric -- Riding Pim's wave: Islam, women, the sacred, and the naked -- Conclusion: the vanishing Muslim individual

Faith in the public realm; Contents; List of tables and figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Faith and the public realm; 2. Controversies of 'public faith'; 3. 'Soft' segregation: Muslim identity, British secularism and inequality; 4. How participation changes things:'inter-faith', 'multi-faith' and a new public imaginary; 5. Faith, multiculturalism and community cohesion:a policy conversation; 6. Blurred encounters? Religious literacy, spiritual capital and language; 7. Religion, political participation and civic engagement: women's experiences

1. "Difference, " cultural racism, and antiracism -- 2. If races do not exist, then what does? Racial categorization and ethnic realities -- 3. Ethnic diversity and racial disadvantage in employment -- 4. Ethnic differentials in educational performance -- 5. Reflections on the Rushdie affair : Muslims, race, and equality in Britain -- 6. Muslims, incitement to hatred, and the law -- 7. Multiculturalism, secularism, and the state -- 8. Muslims and the politics of multiculturalism -- 9. Rethinking multiculturalism and liberalism -- Conclusion : plural Britishness.

Sociology, religion and secularization -- Evangelical expansion in global society -- Rival patterns of secularization and their 'triumphal ways' -- Comparative secularization north and south -- Religion, secularity, secularism and European integration -- Canada in comparative perspective -- The USA in Central European perspective -- Central Europe and the loosening of monopology and the religious tie -- Secularization : master narrative or several stories? -- Pentecostalism : a major narrative of modernity -- Mission and the plurality of faiths -- What is Christian language? -- The Christian, the political, and the academic

Despite the end of the Cold War, America's national security apparatus for controlling information has remained in place. However, sex and secularism are emerging as the major targets of censorship. Federal decency standards have been imposed on art, the broadcast media, and the Internet. Virtually every major political issue of the 1990s (abortion, campaign finance, violence on TV, homosexuality, indecency on the Internet) has First Amendment implications, and all are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: contesting in the name of religion? -- Part I Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1 Protecting freedom of conscience in a constitutional state -- Chapter 2 Contesting philosophical secularism: The case for pluralist secularism -- Chapter 3 Are there consequentialist grounds for exempting religious health care professionals from medical assistance in dying? -- Part II Spaces of contestation -- Chapter 4 Freedom of conscience in private companies: An economic or a political problem? -- Chapter 5 Should conscience clauses in Belgian health care be institutionalised? -- Chapter 6 Advocating in ecology through meditation: A case study on the Swiss "inner transition" network -- Chapter 7 "We don't wanna be outlaws": Hasidic Jews and their allies contest municipal bylaws in a Montreal neighbourhood -- Part III The rhetoric of contestation -- Chapter 8 Secular and religious reasons for conscientious objection: The case of medical assistance in dying -- Chapter 9 The impossibility of contesting in the name of religion? A comparative perspective on assistance in dying in Quebec (Canada) and the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) -- Chapter 10 The politicisation of French Catholics on intimate issues through the promotion of lay expertise: A case study based on the Emmanuel Community's magazine Il est vivant! (1975-2018) -- Index.

Introduction: Religious freedom : social-scientific approaches / Olga Breskaya, Roger Finke, and Giuseppe Tiordan -- How does secularity "travel"? : toward a policy mobilities approach in the study of religious freedom / Efe Peker -- Religious freedom, legal activism and Muslim personal law in contemporary India : a sociological exploration of secularism / Anindita Chakrabarti -- Religious freedom and secularism in post-revolutionary Tunisia / Anna Grasso -- Religious pluralism, religious freedom and the secularization process in the Greek educational system / Alexandraos Sakellariou -- Regulating sincerity : religion, law, public policy, and the ambivalence of religious freedom in pluralist societies / Zaheeda P. Alibhai -- The religionization in Alevi culture : an exploratory study on spiritual leaders (Dedes) / Nuran Erol Işuk -- One, many or none : religious truth-claims and social perception of religious freedom / Olga Breskaya and Giuseppe Giordan -- Religious freedom in prisons : a case study from the Czech Republic / Jan Váně and Lukáš Dirga -- Organizations and religious restrictions : an international overview of the intersection of state and non-governmental organizations and religious groups / Dane R. Mataic and Kerby Goff -- Religious freedom between politics and policies : social and legal conflicts over Catholic religious education in Italy, 1984-1992 / Guillaume Silhol -- The measure of Cedaw : religion, religious freedom, and the rights of women / Barbara R. Walters -- Religious freedom and religionization of world politics : viewed of EU political and religious representatives / Chrysa K. Almpani.

The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western commentators, the question of Women Rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age of democracy and liberalism. Especially since the Arab Awakening, the issue is usually framed as the opposition between liberal advocates of secular democracy and religious opponents of women's full equality. Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective critically re-engages this too simple binary opposition by reframing the debate around Islam and women's rights within a broader comparative literature. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, it examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part One addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part Two localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part One. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women's rights in minority conditions to shed light on the gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder on the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries

Michael W. McConnell and Nathan S. Chapman detail the theological, political, and philosophical underpinnings of religious disestablishment in the United States - and how they relate to modern controversies over school funding, accommodation, public prayer, and public religious symbols. They argue that the clause is not a thumb on the scale for secularism in public matters (let alone the opposite) but a constitutional commitment for Americans of all religious commitments - and none - to agree to disagree about matters of faith.

1 Introduction -- 2 The Concept of Rights -- 3 Human Rights and Moral Pluralism -- 4 Reason and Identity -- 5 Regulating Hate Speech -- 6 A Misconceived Discourse on Political Obligation -- 7 Liberal Democracy and National Minorities -- 8 A Critique of the Liberal Approach to Violence -- 9 Understanding Humiliation -- 10 Reflections on Multiculturalism -- 11 Common Belonging -- 12 A Multicultural Perspective on Secularism -- 13 Cultural Accommodation and the Criminal Law -- 14 Ethnocentricity of the Nationalist Discourse -- 15 Religious Tolerance in a Comparative Perspective

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction | The Declaration and Our Secular World Order -- Part One: Holocaust Origins -- Chapter One | Independent Access to Moral Basics -- Chapter Two | Statecraft and Religious Freedoms -- Part Two: Political Struggles with Religious Literalists -- Chapter Three | US Religiosity and the Duty of Civility -- Chapter Four | Islam and the Universal Declaration -- Part Three: A Deeper Dialogue -- Chapter Five | Secularism Defended -- Chapter Six | The Contribution of Religion -- Conclusion | Human Rights as an Independent Force in World Affairs -- Appendix | Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

1. Religion, secularism, and the public sphere -- 2. Religion and politics in Italy -- 3. Methodology of research -- 4. LGBT rights and same-sex unions -- 5. The beginning of life : abortion and stem cell research -- 6. The end of life : euthanasia -- 7. Religious instruction and religion in education -- 8. The mosque : an exception to religious freedom? -- 9. The Muslim dress code -- 10. National identity on the cross -- 11. Framing the issues -- 12. Actors and coalitions -- 13. Conclusion : culture wars, Italy and Europe.

What does it mean to describe our society as secular? And what role might religion play in its evolution? Are religious considerations a necessary part of coherent speech about human dignity or human rights? Are religious communities properly accounted for in our talk of a "social contract"? "Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society" sets aside popular myths about secularism to probe these important questions from the perspectives of law, politics, religion, morality, and bioethics, reconfiguring the debate about religion and public life.

This collection critically examines ?tolerance," ?secularism," and respect for religious ?diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations.Through a rich and nuanced historical ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, this anthology illuminates the comp