Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-367) and index.

The theo-democratic vision of religious fundamentalists / R. Scott Appleby -- Exercise clauses : introduction and discussion / Catharine Cookson -- Explaining the complexities of religion and state in the United States : separation, integration, and accommodation / Derek H. Davis -- Public funds and religious schools : the next prayer debate? / John E. Ferguson, Jr. -- The rise of state law sanctuary for minority religious liberty in the wake of the fall of federal constitutional protection of nonmainstream faiths / Gary S. Gildin -- Religious (ill)literacy and (un)civil liberties in the United States : past and present / Patrick G. Coy -- The search for meaning in Islam : between violence and nonviolence / Sakah Saidu Mahmud -- Islam at the crossroads of extremism and moderation : new science, global peace, and democracy / J.E. Rash (Ahmed Abdur Rashid) -- The white man's wounded knee, or, Whose holy war is this, anyway? : a cautionary tale / Mary Zeiss Stange -- Yesterday's love, today's ruins : Walker Percy's apocalyptic vision / Paul L. Gaston -- Fundamentalism, democracy, and the contesting of meaning / Roger W. Stump -- Dilemmas of Turkish democracy : the encounter between Kemalist laicism and Islamism in 1990s Turkey / Erstan Aydin and Yilmaz Çolak -- Religious fundamentalism and democratic social practices : or, Why a democracy needs fundamentalists, and why they need a democracy / John P. Burgess -- On naming religious extremists : the "fundamentalist" factor / William D. Dinges -- Exceptionalism and the immigrant experience : America, an unfinished project? / Amira Sonbol -- Goddess Amba unwelcome in Edison, New Jersey : report of a town's xenophobic conflation of race and religion / Vivodh Z. J. Anand -- Liberalism and the challenge of multicultural accommodation / Jan Feldman -- Diverse religious practices and the limits of liberal tolerance / Polycarp Ikuenobe -- Dealing with the unfinished business of America : fighting bias, bigotry, and racism in the twenty-first century / Sanford Cloud, Jr.