Religious Freedom (eBook)

The Contested History of an American Ideal

Tisa Wenger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
312 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3463-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse--Wenger calls it "e;religious freedom talk--that cannot possibly be separated from the evolving politics of race and empire. More often than not, Wenger demonstrates, religious freedom talk worked to privilege the dominant white Christian population. At the same time, a diverse array of minority groups at home and colonized people abroad invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to defend themselves and their ways of life. In so doing they posed sharp challenges to the racial and religious exclusions of American life. People of almost every religious stripe have argued, debated, negotiated, and brought into being an ideal called American religious freedom, subtly transforming their own identities and traditions in the process. In a post-9/11 world, Wenger reflects, public attention to religious freedom and its implications is as consequential as it has ever been.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index, no illus
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American churches and religious freedom • American Catholics and religious freedom • American Catholics and U.S. empire • American Jewish advocacy and global anti-Semitism • American Jewish responses to anti-Semitism • American Jews and religious freedom • assemblages of race and religion in U.S. empire • Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement • Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement • Indian Shakers in the Pacific Northwest • nationhood, sovereignty, and religious freedom. • Native American dances and government suppression • Native Americans and religious freedom • race and religion in the • race and religion in the tri-faith movement • racial and imperial inflections of American secularism • religion in the Spanish-American War • religious freedom and American whiteness • religious freedom and Muslim Moros in the Philippines • religious freedom and the Peyote movement • religious freedom and the Philippine Independent (Aglipayan) Church • religious freedom as a rationale for U.S. empire • religious freedom in the American-occupied Philippines • Religious freedom in U.S. history • the Moorish Science Temple • the Nation of Islam • U.S. empire in the Philippines
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3463-5 / 1469634635
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3463-0 / 9781469634630