"This volume offers theoretical, historical, and jurisprudential perspectives on religious freedom, while examining what it may entail as an experience, a value, and a right. We start from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom never has been easy or smooth. Across societies, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise, balancing, and wrangling with the law. On rocky ground-to continue the environmental metaphor-people have had to push through or maneuver around obstacles, or struggle to keep their footing. Drawing examples from the United States and the world, the essays in this collection illustrate these challenges. They sketch the contours of current debates while showing how the landscape has shifted"--

Introduction: The Landscape of Religious Freedom
Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green
Part I. Ethical Arguments
Chapter 1. A Right of Its Own: A Case for the Human Right of Religious Freedom
Daniel Philpott
Chapter 2. Can Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Be Universal?
Heiner Bielefeldt
Part II. The Social Contingency of Religious Freedom Disputes
Chapter 3. Microclimates of Religious Freedom: Global Norms Meet Local Conditions in Territorial Hawai'i and Occupied Japan
Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Chapter 4. The Protection of Religion as "Culture" and "History": Three Case Studies
Lori G. Beaman
Chapter 5. "Baptism of Ire": Atheist Plaintiffs and Irreligious Freedom in Postwar America
Leigh E. Schmidt
Chapter 6. The Heads or Tails of Cow Protection in India: Religious Freedom and Secular Agriculture
Cassie Adcock
Chapter 7. Bad Faith: Religious Fraud and Religious Freedom in the "Mighty I AM" Case
William Schultz
Part III. The (Mis)application of Religious Freedom
Chapter 8. The Historian's Pickaxe: Uncovering the Racist Origins of the Religious Right
Randall Balmer
Chapter 9. Female Genital Cutting in Michigan: How Advocates of the Dawoodi Bohra Distorted Religious Freedom to Control Women's Sexual Conduct
Kristina Arriaga
Chapter 10. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of Religious Freedom in the United States
Joshua Matz
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green