The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that only pluralism can solve. Working comparatively across nations and disciplines, the essays in After Pluralism explore pluralism as a "term of art" that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter, and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism's ideals in diverse sitesBroadway plays, Polish Holocaust memorials, Egyptian dream interpretations, German jails, and legal theoriesand demonstrate its shaping of political and social interaction in surprising and powerful ways. Throughout, they question assumptions underlying pluralism's discourse and its influence on the legal decisions that shape modern religious practice. Contributors do more than deconstruct this theory; they tackle what comes next. Having established the genealogy and effects of pluralism, they generate new questions for engaging the collective worlds and multiple registers in which religion operates.
- contents
- acknowledgments
- introduction - Habits of Pluralism
- Part I - Law, Normativity, and the Constitution of Religion
- 1. ethics after pluralism
- 2. pluralizing religion
- 3. religion naturalized
- 4. the cultural limits of legal tolerance
- Part II - Performing Religion After Pluralism
- 5. the birth of theatrical liberalism
- 6. the perils of pluralism
- 7. a matter of interpretation
- 8. the temple of religion and the politics of religious pluralism
- Part III - The Ghosts of Pluralism
- 9. native american religious freedom beyond the first amendment
- 10. saving darfur
- 11. what is religious pluralism in a “monocultural” society?
- 12. the curious attraction of religion in east german prisons
- selected bibliography
- contributors
- index
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