chapter three. Assenting to the Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. part I. Histories of the Legal Secular
7. chapter one. Moses’ Veil Secularization as Christian Myth 23
8. chapter two. Secular Law and the Realm of False Religion 43
9. chapter three. Assenting to the Law 62
10. chapter four. National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 80
11. chapter five. “Intolerance of Intolerance” in the Unitarian Controversy 101
12. chapter six. The University and the Advent of the Academic Secular 119
13. chapter seven. Stasiology 140
14. chapter eight. Against Sovereign Impunity 160
15. part II. Ethnographies of the Legal Secular
16. chapter nine. Sovereign Power and Secular Indeterminacy 181
17. chapter ten. The Ruse of Law 200
18. chapter eleven. The Religio-Secular Continuum 221
19. chapter twelve. “The Spirits Were Always Watching” 242
20. chapter thirteen. Secular Speech and Popular Passions 261
21. chapter fourteen. Courting Culture 282
22. chapter fifteen. The Peculiar Stake U.S. Protestants Have in the Question of State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages 302
23. chapter sixteen. Sacred Property 322
24. chapter seventeen. When Is Religion, Religion, and a Knife, a Knife—and Who Decides? 341
25. Index 365