Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3FCPLQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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As she examines transnational networks of race, colonialism, and religion, Wenger elucidates the historical and theoretical conundrums of civilizing missions, Indigeneity, democratization, subaltern agencies, and modern terrors that have rendered freedom of religion as a global formation. Broadly imagined and painstakingly researched, Religious Freedom will be of value to general readers and scholars alike.--Tracy Fessenden, author of Culture and Redemption. Exploring the triangulation of religion, race, and
More often than not, Wenger demonstrates, religious freedom talk worked to privilege the dominant white Christian population. 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. 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. At the same time, a diverse array of minority groups at home and colonized people abroad invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to
. Tisa Wenger, associate professor of American religious history at Yale University, is the author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom