The Production of American Religious Freedom Anna Richards cover a spectrum of personal

cover a spectrum of personal history

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An Arabic edition with English scholarly apparatus

Since the establishment of Christianity in the West as a major religious tradition

The Production of American Religious Freedom Anna Richards cover a spectrum of personalAmericans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either "religion" or "freedom." Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to