The University of Chicago Martin Marty Center

Religion and the Democratic Prospect

May 2005 Conference Papers

Comparing Religions, Legally, or Comparing Law Comparing Religion
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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A Political Ideal for Religious Progressives in America
by Michael Kessler
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‘As Dew Among the Nations’: The Messianic Idea in Liberal Judaism
by Jerome Eric Copulsky
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Citizenship and Invisibility: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Race, and Democratic Prospects
by Richard A. Rosengarten
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October 2004 Conference Papers

Defining Religion in the Cow Protection Movement: Freedom of Religion in Colonial India
by Cassie Adcock
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Unifying Religious Diversity
by Barbra Barnett
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On Noncoercive Religious Establishment
by Dan Brudney
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May 2004 Conference Papers

Ecology, Democracy, and the Good
by Francisco Benzoni
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Inevitable Injustice: Challenging Some Dominant Assumptions
by Joe Pettit
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Religious Freedom and Civic Education in American Public Schools: Lessons from the Supreme Court
by Erik Owens
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November 2003 Conference Papers

Democratic Privacy: The Human Condition in Nineteenth-Century America
by W. Clark Gilpin
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Democracy as a Religious Question
Franklin I. Gamwell
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Religion as Critique and the Critique of Religion: The Problem of the Self in the Modern World
Douglas Sturm
This piece was published in Solidarity and Suffering: Toward a Politics of Relationality (SUNY Press, 1998), pp. 159-180.
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Religion: Tocqueville's Prescription for What Ails Democracy
by Kristin D. Van Heyningen
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