The invention of religion : rethinking belief in politics and history
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The invention of religion : rethinking belief in politics and history
Rutgers University Press, c2002
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Selected references: p. 209-213
Includes index
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ISBN 9780813530925
内容説明
What led to the Fourth Amendment's protection of the people against unreasonable searches and seizures, codified in written law for the first time in history, and are we in danger of losing that protection? Celebrated lawyer Samuel Dash, known for his role as Chief Counsel of the Watergate Committee, explores the struggle for privacy. He does so by telling the dramatic tales of the people who were involved in influential legal battles, including landmark Supreme Court cases. Covering almost eight-hundred years of history, Dash begins with the time of King John of England and the Magna Carta, then moves to colonial America as colonists resisted searches mandated under King George. These tensions contributed to the birth of the United States and the adoption of our Bill of Rights with its Fourth Amendment, protecting people against unreasonable searches and seizures. How effective that protection has been is the story of the next two centuries. Dash explores U.S. Supreme Court cases through the sometimes humorous experiences of the people involved, including the unlucky gambler with a shoplifting wife and the police lieutenant turned king of bootleggers. To some extent, judicial safeguarding of Fourth Amendment protections depended on who made up the majority of the Court at any given time. By 2001 a conservative majority of the Court had given law enforcement agents greater search powers than ever before. Dash challenges the legal justification of the Bush Administration's grab for greater search, seizure, and wiretap powers after the 9/11 terrorists' attacks. He reminds us of government abuses of power in prior emergencies in American history. For Dash, the best security is our belief in individual liberty and the enforcement of our Bill of Rights.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813530932
内容説明
Is religion an obstacle to enlightenment? Popular and scholarly opinion says that it is. In a world gripped in a clash of civilizations, the virtues of tolerance, reason, and freedom seem to be under siege by religious absolutism. This collection of historical essays argues that the conventional wisdom on religion makes sense only as a strategy of intellectual and political control. The authors study how nationalists, state officials, missionaries and scholars in the West and in the colonized world defined and redefined the relationship between the political and the religious. Recasting and representing religious beliefs and practices, the authors show, was for modernizing elites a means of consolidating new political communities.
Part 1 of the book examines the political and scholarly stakes involved in defining Buddhism, African traditional religion, and fundamentalist Judaism as subjective and apolitical belief systems. Part 2 takes up the relationship between religious reform and nationalism, asking how the formalization of religious practices in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire, Japan, and India helped define nationalist ideologies. Part 3 turns to religious exhibits in Turkey and the southern United States, exploring how pilgrims and tourists convert museum displays into objects of religious veneration.
By treating religion as a contested social space, this book brings philosophy, theology, history, and political science together to show how struggles over religious practices are bound up with colonial and national politics around the world.
目次
Rethinking religion / Derek R. Peterson and Darren R. Walhof
Why study Indian Buddhism? / Richard S. Cohen
Gambling with God: rethinking religion in colonial central Kenya / Derek R. Peterson
Here (we) are the Haredim: intertextuality and the voice of authority in the representation of a religious fundamentalist movement / Jeremy Stolow
Republicizing religiosity: modernity, religion, and the middle class / Sanjay Joshi
A religion that was not a religion: the creation of modern Shinto in nineteenth-century Japan / Sarah Thal
Secularism and religion in the Arab Middle East: reinventing Islam in a world of nation-states / James L. Gelvin
Tra(ve)ils of secularism: Islam in museums from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic / Wendy M.K. Shaw
"These hills will give you great treasure": Ozark tourism and the collapse of sacred and secular / Aaron K. Ketchell
World religions and secularization from a postcolonial and anti-Eurocentric perspective / Enrique Dussel
Literacy in the eye of the conversion storm / Gauri Viswanathan
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