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Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism
Banchoff, Thomas Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Peace, Georgetown University
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530722-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307221.003.0001
 

1 Introduction
Thomas Banchoff
This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of how the emergence of a new religious pluralism is shaking up Atlantic democracies. It then discusses the demographic and cultural characteristics of this new religious pluralism, democratic responses to the new religious pluralism, and new challenges for Atlantic societies.
Keywords: Atlantic democracies, democratic societies, religion, politics, demographic characteristics, cultural characteristics
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307221.003.0001
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1 Introduction
Part 1 Contours of the New Religious Pluralism
2 Pluralism, Protestantization, and the Voluntary Principle
3 Uneven Secularization in the United States and Western Europe
4 Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism
5 The Transnational Struggle for Jewish Pluralism
6 Politicians' Perceptions of the “Muslim Problem”
7 America's Muslims
8 Religious Diversity in a “Christian Nation”
Part II Democratic Responses to the New Religious Pluralism
9 Radical Evil in Liberal Democracies
10 Islam and the Republic
11 Pluralism, Tolerance, and Democracy
12 American Religious Pluralism
13 A Voice of One's Own
14 The End of Religious Pluralism
15 Stem Cell Politics, Religious and Secular
Index
 
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