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Politics of Religious Freedom (Paperback)
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In a remarkably short period of time, religious freedom has
achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace.
Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and
private actors around the world have responded with laws and
policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what
precisely is being promoted? What are the cultural and
epistemological assumptions underlying this response, and what
forms of politics are enabled in the process? The fruits of the
three-year Politics of Religious Freedom research project, the
contributions to this volume unsettle the assumption - ubiquitous
in policy circles - that religious freedom is a singular
achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the
problem lies in its incomplete accomplishment. Taking a global
perspective, the contributors delineate the different conceptions
of religious freedom predominant in the world today, as well as
their histories and social and political contexts. Together, the
contributions make clear that the reasons for persecution are more
varied and complex than is widely acknowledged, and that the
indiscriminate promotion of a single legal and cultural tool meant
to address conflict across a wide variety of cultures can have the
perverse effect of exacerbating the problems that plague the
communities cited as falling short.
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