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Religion and Politics
At Home and Abroad
The Politics of American Religion Edited by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together diverse authors to explore ties across conceptual and political boundaries. They examine the ideas, people, and institutions that provide links between domestic and foreign religious politics and policies.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19899-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19898-1 2021 368 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left
Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left. He foregrounds the roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19363-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19362-7 2019 272 pages
COLUMBIA SERIES ON RELIGION AND POLITICS
Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion
How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences Jeffrey Israel
Foreword by Martha C. Nussbaum
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Jeffrey Israel offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. He explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives.
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19017-6 2020 392 pages
The Limits of Tolerance
Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism Denis Lacorne Translated by C. Jon Delogu and Robin Emlein
Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. He defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18714-5 2019 296 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Going Low
How Profane Politics Challenges Finnebar Curtis
Recent events have shown, up close and personal, how for many on the far right nothing, no matter how offensive, immoral, or even illegal, is impermissible in pursuit of power. But the left is not immune to such policies and tactics, often against itself. Such transgressive social rulebreaking, argues Finbarr Curtis, is particularly amenable to the analytical tools of religious studies.
$28.00 / £23.00 paper 978-0-231-20573-3 $110.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20572-6 August 2022 344 pages
Modern Sufis and the State
The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Edited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R. Corbett
In recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19575-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19574-4 2020 360 pages
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Religious Statecraft
The Politics of Islam in Iran Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
Religious Statecraft examines the politics of Islam, rather than political Islam, to achieve a new understanding of Iranian politics and its ideological contradictions. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines against the backdrop of Iran’s factional and international politics, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly, frequently, and dramatically in accordance with elites’ threat perceptions.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18367-3 2019 392 pages
