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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739193266
  • 0739193260
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Decentering discussions on religion and stateDDC classification:
  • 322/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.S8 D43 2015eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: This volume offers readers new openings through which to understand critical but overlooked ideas about religion - 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

This volume offers readers new openings through which to understand critical but overlooked ideas about religion - 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.

English.