"This volume offers theoretical, historical, and jurisprudential perspectives on religious freedom, while examining what it may entail as an experience, a value, and a right. We start from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom never has been easy or smooth. Across societies, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise, balancing, and wrangling with the law. On rocky ground-to continue the environmental metaphor-people have had to push through or maneuver around obstacles, or struggle to keep their footing. Drawing examples from the United States and the world, the essays in this collection illustrate these challenges. They sketch the contours of current debates while showing how the landscape has shifted"--