Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the public

Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the public

Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be in

This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere. The book is divided in three sections.

For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to pray