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"Among the key topics covered are : Muslim relations with the West and with Christianity, the Jewish diaspora within the multi-cultural world, assimilation and mutual criticism within Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, the future of religion; possibilities for reaching new levels of tolerance and understanding"--Back cover.

"This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory--why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why, for example, can a religious soup kitchen get an exemption from zoning laws in order to expand its facilities to better serve the needy, while a secular soup kitchen with the same goal cannot? Why is a Sikh boy permitted to wear his ceremonial...

Publisher's description: Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading...

The debate on whether to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has become a touchy subject for many and raised questions over U.S. views on Islam. NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill gets three perspectives from the Rev. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance; Professor Abdullahi An-na'im; and Cynthia Mahmood of the University of Notre Dame. Original.

NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown moderates a conversation among four religious leaders and experts on the tolerance-or intolerance-of different religions and cultures in America, nine years after the September. 11, 2001, attacks. Origina?

The Reverend Barry Lynn explains why the Religious Right has it all wrong. In Piety & Politics, the Reverend Barry Lynn continues the fighte̮ducatingAmericans about what is at stake, explaining why it is crucial that we maintain the separation of church and state, and galvanizing us to defend the honor of our religious freedom.

Americans are becoming more religiously tolerant than they have been in the past. Seventy percent accept that religions other than their own can lead to eternal life and less than 25 percent believe that their faith is the one true faith. This ABC News report examines how, in spite of the culture wars, Americans demonstrate a great deal of flexibility in how they see other religions.

"In God Hates, sociologist Barrett-Fox takes us behind the scenes of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church. The first full ethnography of this infamous presence on America's Religious Right, her book situates the church's story in the context of American religious history--and reveals as much about the uneasy state of Christian practice in our day as it does about the workings of the Westboro Church and Fred Phelps, its founder. God Hates traces WBC's...