- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Preface
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Chapter One Imagining the Hebrew Republic -
Chapter Two On the Freedom of the Concepts of Religion and Belief -
Chapter Three Believing in Religious Freedom -
Chapter Four What Is Religious Freedom Supposed to Free? -
Chapter Five The Power of Pluralist Thinking -
Chapter Six Reflections on the Politics of Religious Freedom, with Attention to Hawaii -
Chapter Seven Traditional, African, Religious, Freedom? - Preface
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Chapter Eight The Problem with the History of Toleration -
Chapter Nine Religious Minorities and Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century -
Chapter Ten Varieties of Religious Freedom and Governance -
Chapter Eleven Religious Freedom between Truth and Tactic -
Chapter Twelve Religious Freedom, Minority Rights, and Geopolitics -
Chapter Thirteen Ceylon/Sri Lanka -
Chapter Fourteen Liberty as Recognition - Preface
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Chapter Fifteen Postapartheid Treatment of Religious Freedom in South Africa -
Chapter Sixteen Religious Freedom in Postrevolutionary Tunisia -
Chapter Seventeen Beyond Establishment -
Chapter Eighteen The Bishops, the Sisters, and Religious Freedom -
Chapter Nineteen The World That Smith Made -
Chapter Twenty Religious Freedom in the Panopticon of Enlightenment Rationality -
Chapter Twenty-One Everson’s Children - Preface
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Chapter Twenty-Two Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age -
Chapter Twenty-Three Freeing Religion at the Birth of South Sudan -
Chapter Twenty-Four Is Religion Free? -
Chapter Twenty-Five Religious Freedom and the Bind of Suspicion in Contemporary Secularity -
Chapter Twenty-Six Religious Repression and Religious Freedom -
Chapter Twenty-Seven Religious Freedom’s Oxymoronic Edge - Contributors
- Index
Imagining the Hebrew Republic
Imagining the Hebrew Republic
Christian Genealogies of Religious Freedom
- Chapter:
- (p.17) Chapter One Imagining the Hebrew Republic
- Source:
- Politics of Religious Freedom
- Author(s):
Robert Yelle
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This essay argues that a theological genealogy of religious freedom is needed. In Reformation theology, Judaism and Jewish ritual law became the negative image for the proposition that the state can never be the site for salvation. This negative image structures today’s understanding that true religion is that which can never be in partnership with the state. Yelle emphasizes the urgent task of reading Christian theology in order to understand how unfree we are.
Keywords: Judaism, Early Modern Europe, political theology, Antisemitism, Jewish law, Reformation theology
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Preface
-
Chapter One Imagining the Hebrew Republic -
Chapter Two On the Freedom of the Concepts of Religion and Belief -
Chapter Three Believing in Religious Freedom -
Chapter Four What Is Religious Freedom Supposed to Free? -
Chapter Five The Power of Pluralist Thinking -
Chapter Six Reflections on the Politics of Religious Freedom, with Attention to Hawaii -
Chapter Seven Traditional, African, Religious, Freedom? - Preface
-
Chapter Eight The Problem with the History of Toleration -
Chapter Nine Religious Minorities and Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century -
Chapter Ten Varieties of Religious Freedom and Governance -
Chapter Eleven Religious Freedom between Truth and Tactic -
Chapter Twelve Religious Freedom, Minority Rights, and Geopolitics -
Chapter Thirteen Ceylon/Sri Lanka -
Chapter Fourteen Liberty as Recognition - Preface
-
Chapter Fifteen Postapartheid Treatment of Religious Freedom in South Africa -
Chapter Sixteen Religious Freedom in Postrevolutionary Tunisia -
Chapter Seventeen Beyond Establishment -
Chapter Eighteen The Bishops, the Sisters, and Religious Freedom -
Chapter Nineteen The World That Smith Made -
Chapter Twenty Religious Freedom in the Panopticon of Enlightenment Rationality -
Chapter Twenty-One Everson’s Children - Preface
-
Chapter Twenty-Two Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age -
Chapter Twenty-Three Freeing Religion at the Birth of South Sudan -
Chapter Twenty-Four Is Religion Free? -
Chapter Twenty-Five Religious Freedom and the Bind of Suspicion in Contemporary Secularity -
Chapter Twenty-Six Religious Repression and Religious Freedom -
Chapter Twenty-Seven Religious Freedom’s Oxymoronic Edge - Contributors
- Index
