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The new religious intolerance : overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age

By: Nussbaum, Martha C.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012Description: xiii, 285 p. ; ill., 22 cm.ISBN: 9780674725911.Subject(s): Angst | Religious discrimination | Freedom of religionDDC classification: 201.723 Summary: Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural centre in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the United States? Martha Nussbaum surveys such developments and identifies the fear behind these reactions.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.

Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural centre in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the United States? Martha Nussbaum surveys such developments and identifies the fear behind these reactions.

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