Bounded Divinities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Divine Ordinances

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 1-21

3. Words and Things: Religious and Political Domains

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 23-48

4. Sacred Texts

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 49-81

5. True Colors: Public and Deliberative Reasoning

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 83-111

6. Infinite Regresses, Recursions, and Public Reason

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 113-143

7. Modeling Public Reason: Political Liberalism and Realpolitik

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 145-173

8. Political and Religious Practices: A Case Study Continued

   • Fred M. Frohock

   Pages 175-197

9. Back Matter

   Pages 199-256

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This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion. Santería is used as a case study to illustrate the similarities and differences among religious and political practices and discusses effective dispute management.

• management
• modeling
• politics
• religion
• religion and politics
• democracy
• religion and society

"In Bounded Divinities, Fred M. Frohock deftly weaves a fascinating account of the Santería (or Lukumí) religion into lucid analyses of political liberalism, deliberative democracy, reason-of-state realism, difficulties of textual interpretation, the nature of religion, and much more. This wide-ranging yet incisive book also makes the most powerful case for modus-vivendi liberalism that I have encountered."

- Richard Dagger, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Arizona State University, and author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism

"This is a fascinating study looking at the resolution of disputes in the public realm. Frohock uses specific religious examples to generate powerful hypotheses about the nature of conflictin liberal societies and the very concrete legal and moralproblems that strong religious identification createsin liberal political environments.This is an original and provocative study that strikes new ground in examining the complex relationship between religion and politics and the use of ritual in religious practice."

- James M. Glass, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park

FRED M. FROHOCK is Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Miami, USA.

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