Varieties of Religious Establishment

Contents: Neighbo(u)rly misreadings and misconstruals: a cross-border conversation, Lori G. Beaman and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; Part I Theory and Structure: Spiritual economies beyond the sacred/secular paradigm: or, what did religious freedom mean in Ancient India?, Robert A Yelle; The aesthetics of religious freedom, Benjamin L. Berger; Varieties of native Hawaiian establishment: recognized voices, routinized charisma, and church desecration, Greg Johnson. Part II Re-Telling Religio-Legal Histories: Deprivileging religion in a post-Westphalian state: shadow establishment, organization, spirituality and freedom in Canada, Peter Beyer; Religion, land, rights, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; The implicit Sharia: established religion and varieties of secularism in Tunisia, Malika Zeghal; Church of the air: Roman Catholics, religious programming and regulation in Canadian broadcasting, 1918-2008, Mark McGowan; The five worlds of religious establishment in Taiwan, André Laliberté. Part III Rethinking Law’s Capacities: The politics of religious establishment: recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa, Peter G. Danchin; Thinking about cooperation and collaboration between diverse religious and secular community responses to domestic violence, Nancy Nason-Clarke and Catherine Holtmann; Legal pluralism and Shari’a in Western societies: theories and hypotheses, James T. Richardson and Victoria Springer; Index.

Biography

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom and Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution. She is also editor (with Robert Yelle and Mateo Taussig-Rubbo of After Secular Law. Lori G. Beaman, Ph.D., is the Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law (2008) and she is co-editor with Peter Beyer of Religion and Diversity in Canada (2008). She is principal investigator of a 37-member international research team whose focus is religion and diversity (religionanddiversity.ca).

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