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Leslie Dorrough Smith is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Avila University. Steffen Fuhrding teaches at the Department for the Study of Religion at Leibniz University Hannover. Adrian Hermann is Professor of Religion and Society at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn.

Preface
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann

Section 1: The Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion
1. Introduction: “And What Kind of Society Does That Create?”
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
2. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Neo-Orientalism and the Study of Religion
Aaron W.Hughes, University of Rochester
3. Religious Studies and the Jargon of Authenticity
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, Williams College

Section 2: Politics
Introduction to the Politics Section
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann
4. Toward a Critique of Postsecular Rhetoric
Naomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottowa
5. The Political Utility of the Past: The Case of Greek Fire-Walking Rituals
VaiaTouna, University of Alabama
6. Privatized Publics and Scholarly Silos: Gender, Religion, and their Theoretical Fault Lines
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama
7. What’s Religious Freedom Got to Do With It? On the Niqab Affair in Canadian Politics
Matt Sheedy, University of Manitoba

Section 3: Media
Introduction to the Media Section
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, Adrian Hermann
8. The Strange and Familiar Spiritual Journey of Reza Aslan
Martha Smith Roberts, Denison University
9. The Journalist-Ethnographer, Religious Diversity, and the Euphemisation of Social Relations
Carmen Becker, Leibniz University Hannover
10. Scopophilia and the Manufacture of “Good” Religion
Leslie Dorrough Smith
11. Naturalizing the Transnational Capitalist Class: Reza Aslan’s Believer and the Ideological Reproduction of an Emerging Social Formation
Craig Prentiss, Rockhurst University
12. Authentic Religion – Or, How To Be A Good Citizen
Steffen Führding

Section 4: University
Introduction to the University Section
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, Adrian Hermann
13. ‘Bad Religion’ on the University Campus: “Political Correctness” and the Future of the Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion Adrian Hermann and Stefan Priester, University of Bonn
14. Studying Religion in a Post-Truth World
Stephanie Gripentrog, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
15. The Good, The Bad, and the Non-Religion: The Good/Bad Rhetoric in Non-Religion Studies
Christopher R. Cotter, University of Edinburgh
16. The Campus as a ‘Safe Space’? A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective on the New Student Protests
David Kaldewey, University of Bonn



Section 5: Classroom
Introduction to the Classroom Section Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding,
Adrian Hermann
17. What Teaching New Religions Tells Us about the Discourse on ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Religion
David G. Robertson, The Open University
18. Unintentionally Constructing ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Religions in Teaching Classical
European Social Theories at a Japanese University
Mitsutoshi Horii, Chaucer College
19. Good and Bad, Legitimate and Illegitimate Religion in Education
Wanda Alberts, Leibniz University Hannover
20. Benign Religion as Normal Religion Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University