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: Introduction Part I: Contours of the New Religious Pluralism 2: Peter L. Berger: Pluralism, Protestantization and the Voluntary Principle 3: Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart: Uneven Secularization in the U.S. and Western Europe 4: José Casanova: Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism: An EU/U.S. Comparison 5: Yossi Shain: The Transnational Struggle for Jewish Pluralism 6: Sam Cherribi: Politicians' Perceptions of the Muslim "Problem": The Dutch Example in European Context 7: John L. Esposito: America's Muslims: Issues of Identity, Religious Diversity, and Pluralism 8: Robert Wuthnow: Religious Diversity in a "Christian Nation:" American Identity and American Democracy Part II: Democratic Responses to the New Religious Pluralism 9: Martha C. Nussbaum: Radical Evil in Liberal Democracies: The Neglect of the Political Emotions 10: Daniéle Hervieu-Léger: Islam and the Republic: the French Case 11: Gracie Davie: Pluralism, Tolerance, and Democracy: Theory and Practice in Europe 12: Diana L. Eck: American Religious Pluralism: Civic and Theological Discourse 13: 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 World 15: Thomas Banchoff: Stem Cell Politics, Religious and Secular: The United States and France Compared