In the hyper-globalized world of the politics of religious freedom today, a focus on establishments brings into view the cultural assumptions, cosmologies, anthropologies, and institutions which structure religion and religious diversity. In this book leading international scholars from a diverse range of disciplines explore how countries today live with religious difference and consider how considering establishments reveals the limitations of universal, multicultural, and interfaith models of religious freedom. Examining the various forms religion takes in Tunisia, Canada, Taiwan, South Africa, and the USA, amongst others, this book argues that legal protections for religious freedom can only be understood in a context of socially and culturally specific constraints.

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom and Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution. She is also editor (with Robert Yelle and Mateo Taussig-Rubbo of After Secular Law. Lori G. Beaman, Ph.D., is the Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law (2008) and she is co-editor with Peter Beyer of Religion and Diversity in Canada (2008). She is principal investigator of a 37-member international research team whose focus is religion and diversity (religionanddiversity.ca).

Contents: Neighbo(u)rly misreadings and misconstruals: a cross-border conversation, Lori G. Beaman and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; Part I Theory and Structure: Spiritual economies beyond the sacred/secular paradigm: or, what did religious freedom mean in Ancient India?, Robert A Yelle; The aesthetics of religious freedom, Benjamin L. Berger; Varieties of native Hawaiian establishment: recognized voices, routinized charisma, and church desecration, Greg Johnson. Part II Re-Telling Religio-Legal Histories: Deprivileging religion in a post-Westphalian state: shadow establishment, organization, spirituality and freedom in Canada, Peter Beyer; Religion, land, rights, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; The implicit Sharia: established religion and varieties of secularism in Tunisia, Malika Zeghal; Church of the air: Roman Catholics, religious programming and regulation in Canadian broadcasting, 1918-2008, Mark McGowan; The five worlds of religious establishment in Taiwan, André Laliberté. Part III Rethinking Law's Capacities: The politics of religious establishment: recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa, Peter G. Danchin; Thinking about cooperation and collaboration between diverse religious and secular community responses to domestic violence, Nancy Nason-Clarke and Catherine Holtmann; Legal pluralism and Shari'a in Western societies: theories and hypotheses, James T. Richardson and Victoria Springer; Index.