The Limits of Tolerance

Denis Lacorne

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 38
• The modern notion of tolerance--the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good--emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of re... Lees meer

Baptizing Burma

Alexandra Kaloyanides

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 45
• Shortlisted, 2024 EuroSEAS Book Prize in the Humanities, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies In July 1813, a young American couple from B... Lees meer

At Home and Abroad

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 44
• From right to left, notions of religion and religious freedom are fundamental to how many Americans have understood their country and themselves. Idea... Lees meer

Karma and Grace

Neena Mahadev

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 46
• Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion Around the turn of the millennium, Pentec... Lees meer

Open to Reason

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 34
• What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason , Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' intellectual a... Lees meer

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

Marc David Baer

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 42
• Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of... Lees meer

Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 15
• This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by... Lees meer

Baptizing Burma

Alexandra Kaloyanides

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 45
• Shortlisted, 2024 EuroSEAS Book Prize in the Humanities, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies In July 1813, a young American couple from B... Lees meer

The Limits of Tolerance

Denis Lacorne

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 38
• The modern notion of tolerance--the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good--emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of re... Lees meer

Blood

Gil Anidjar

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 19
• Blood , according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its lite... Lees meer

Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 14
• Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advoca... Lees meer

Religion in America

Denis Lacorne

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 7
• Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenmen... Lees meer

Beyond the Secular West

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 1
• What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To ... Lees meer

Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 13
• Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic tr... Lees meer

Perilous Intimacies

Sherali Tareen

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 49
• Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion Friendship--particularly interreligious fr... Lees meer

The Holocaust and the Nakba

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 39
• In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fu... Lees meer

The Politics of Secularism

Murat Akan

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 41
• Discussions of modernity--or alternative and multiple modernities--often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its or... Lees meer

The Holocaust and the Nakba

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 39
• In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fu... Lees meer

Mormonism and American Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 18
• When Joseph Smith ran for president as a radical protest candidate in 1844, Mormons were a deeply distrusted group in American society, and their effo... Lees meer

Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 13
• Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic tr... Lees meer

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

Marc David Baer

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 42
• Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of... Lees meer

Democratic Transition in the Muslim World

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 35
• In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary a... Lees meer

Race and Secularism in America

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 30
• This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized sub... Lees meer

Boundaries of Toleration

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Culture, and Public Life | nr. 16
• How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering... Lees meer