Marjorie Garber is the William R Kenan, Jr Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent book is Symptoms of Culture (Routledge 1998). Rebecca L. Walkowitz is completing her Ph.D. at Harvard and has most recently coedited, with Paul B. Franklin and Marjorie Garber, Field Work: Sites in Literary and CulturalStudies (Routledge 1996). Together they edit the series CultureWork, in which this volume appears.
Part 1 Civility
Chapter 1 The Multireligious Public Square, Diana L. Eck
Chapter 2 Civic Religion and the First Amendment, David Lyle Jeffrey
Chapter 3 Jewish Denominationalism Meets the Open Society, Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Chapter 4 The Cloistered Closet, Dorothy A. AustinThe Reverend
Chapter 5 What'S Derrida Got to Do with Jesus?: Rhetoric, Black Religion, and Theory, Michael Eric Dyson
Part 2 Law
Chapter 6 Getting Religion, Janet R. Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini
Chapter 7 Losing Faith in the Secular and the Culture of International Governance, David Kennedy
Chapter 8 Islamic Law and Muslim Women in America, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Part 3 Practice
Chapter 9 Yom Hashoah in the Capital Rotunda, Deborah E. Lipstadt
Chapter 10 "Plenty Good Room..." in a Changing Black Church, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Chapter 11 Cremation American Style: Consumers' Last Rites, Stephen Prothero
Chapter 12 From Monticello to Graceland: Jefferson and Elvis as American Icons, Robert Kiely
Chapter 13 Practicing Christian Rock, Barbara Claire Freeman
Part 4 Conversion
Chapter 14 Mormonism and Other Narratives of the Living Dead, William R. Handley
Chapter 15 American Heritage, Peter S. Hawkins
Chapter 16 Two-Point Conversion, Marjorie Garber