Decentering Discussions on Religion and State : Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives.

Intro -- 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 Agency -- Chapter 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.

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