Decentering discussions on religion and state : emerging narratives, challenging perspectives / edited by Sargon George Donabed and Autumn Quezada-Grant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sectarian friend: Elias Hicks and the Second Great Awakening / Matt McCook -- "Their supervision was temporal not ecclesiastical": the establishment of Mashpee Parish, 1834-1840 / Nicole Breault -- "It forbids you the right to do right": the First Amendment critique of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law / James Tackach -- "Soul libertie" versus the sons and daughters of Eire: the Irish Catholic immigrant in Rhode Island / Debra A. Mulligan -- Altering landscapes: French-Canadian Catholics and ethnic-styled unionism in Woonsocket, Rhode Island / Louise M. Doire -- Stories the state tells itself: the Supreme Court and "religion" since 1947 / Michael Graziano -- Tempest in a teacup: warping the church-state divide / Kristen Shedd -- Fighting the winds of change: Texas Baptists and the separation of church and state, 1970-1985 / Blake Ellis -- Silence and the city: political theology and Occupy Wall Street / Jordan E. Miller -- Visions of al-Quds: fragments of a Palestinian imagination / Ryan M. Hammack -- Confronting the "normative abyss": the challenges and resources in Catholic ethics for the global age / Daniel J. Daly -- Political functions of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States (1945-1991) / Marko Veković -- Sacred confronts profane: the Salafi political experience in Egypt, 2011-2013 / Douglas H. Garrison -- Church-state relations in the "new Egypt" / Paul S. Rowe -- State-sponsored religion as impediment to assimilation and immigration: a look at Europe / Tadeusz Kugler -- Preventing religious genocide: from the war in Biafra to the torture convention / Hannibal Travis.