Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism

Thomas Banchoff is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is the author of The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy (1999) and co-editor of Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity (1999).

• 1: Thomas Banchoff: IntroductionPart I: Contours of the New Religious Pluralism2: Peter L. Berger: Pluralism, Protestantization and the Voluntary Principle3: Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart: Uneven Secularization in the U.S. and Western Europe4: José Casanova: Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism: An EU/U.S. Comparison5: Yossi Shain: The Transnational Struggle for Jewish Pluralism6: Sam Cherribi: Politicians' Perceptions of the Muslim "Problem": The Dutch Example in European Context7: John L. Esposito: America's Muslims: Issues of Identity, Religious Diversity, and Pluralism8: Robert Wuthnow: Religious Diversity in a "Christian Nation:" American Identity and American DemocracyPart II: Democratic Responses to the New Religious Pluralism9: Martha C. Nussbaum: Radical Evil in Liberal Democracies: The Neglect of the Political Emotions10: Daniéle Hervieu-Léger: Islam and the Republic: the French Case11: Gracie Davie: Pluralism, Tolerance, and Democracy: Theory and Practice in Europe12: Diana L. Eck: American Religious Pluralism: Civic and Theological Discourse13: Stanley Hauerwas: The End of "Religious Pluralism" A Tribute to David Burrell, C.S.C.14: Miroslav Volf: A Voice of One's Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World15: Thomas Banchoff: Stem Cell Politics, Religious and Secular: The United States and France Compared