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>> 245 Index Adhān (call to prayer), 1, 4, 8, 14, 156–157, 162–164; compared to church bells, 181– 182, 185; dispute in Hamtramck, 158–159, 165–194, 240n35; exclusivist opposition to, 171–176; pluralist support for, 183–188; privatist opposition to, 177–183. See also Al-Islāh Islamic Center; Hamtramck, Mich.; Hamtramck Interfaith Partners; Motlib, Abdul African Americans, 5, 84–85, 143, 162, 237n8 Al-Islāh Islamic Center, 158, 162–163, 164, 168, 173, 174, 187, 188 Anglo-Catholicism, 44, 46, 69 Asad, Talal, 6, 240–241n41 Attali, Jacques, 73, 227n22 Attention, 8, 12, 22, 32–33, 38, 61–63, 68, 75, 83–89, 108, 114–116, 119–120, 123–127, 164, 167, 170, 179, 182, 185, 192, 194, 197–198, 201, 205–206 Babbage, Charles, 37 Bailey, Peter, 4 Baird, Robert, 81 Baltzell, E. Digby, 218n11 Beaufort, S.C., 79–80, 224n2 Beecher, Lyman, 27 Begg, Victor, 242n50 Biddle, George Washington: on Harrison, 51–52, 62, 63–65, 75; on Reynolds, 52 Black, Charles L., 233n4 Black, Hugo, 11, 141, 142 Blackmun, Harry, 153 Booth, William, 83 Booth-Tucker, Frederick, 89 Brennan, William, 148–149 Buddhists, 19, 41, 154, 156 Burger, Warren, 149 Burton, Harold, 142 Butler, Jon, 23 Buttry, Sharon, 186, 187 Campbell, James, 86–87 Cantwell v. Connecticut, 122, 126, 127, 139, 148 Captive audience, 143, 144, 177. See also unwilling listeners Catholics, 5, 21, 22, 28, 38, 42, 84, 100–102, 104, 106, 119, 158, 160–162, 164, 172, 186, 213n2; in nineteenth-century America, 56; Protestant antipathy towards, 57–58 Christian Broadcasting Network, 172 Church bells: and class difference, 63–64, 92; as contested sound, 20, 37, 181–182, 185, 196, 198; opposition to, 71, 72; necessity of, 54–56, 60, 62–63, 65–67, 71; as permitted noise, 118–121; as sound of freedom, 24; as superstition, 59; in the United States, 20, 21, 23–24, 35–36, 38–39, 40, 76, 94, 96, 214–215n13, 219n21, 227–228n28; 235–236n32. See also Harrison vs. St. Marks Cohen, Robert Paul, 143–144 Commonwealth v. Jeandelle, 30–32, 33 Connolly, William, 183–184 Connor, Steven, 203 Covington, Hayden, 131 David’s Mighty Men, 172–176, 189 Davis, Susan, 80–81 246 > 247 Lockport, N.Y.: anti-noise ordinance in, 132–133; Jehovah’s Witnesses in, 98, 103, 133; religion in, 99–102 Loudspeakers, 141–142, 227n22; compared to church bells, 118–121, 124; Covington on, 131; use by Jehovah’s Witnesses, 97, 98, 106, 111, 112, 113, 125–126, 231n23; religious use of, 114–115, 116, 117, 122, 123–124, 127, 129. See also Kovacs v. Cooper; Saia v. New York Majewski, Karen, 168–169, 188, 242–243n59 Maffly-Kipp, Laurie, 211–212n15 Marquis, James, 172–176 Marshall, Thurgood: on Grayned, 144–145; on Ward, 147–148, 155 Material practice, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 55–56, 57, 60, 73, 98, 106, 116–118, 128, 150–151, 159, 170, 180, 197–201, 203–204 Mazur, Eric, 131 McCollum v. Board of Education, 129, 232–233n47 McPherson, Aimee Semple, 96 Mediation: auditory, 6, 10, 55, 56, 73; among competing truth claims, 8, 201; of contact and conflict, 9, 13, 21, 42, 105, 123, 159, 165, 180, 191, 194, 199, 201, 205; religion as, 9, 13, 56, 57, 60, 99, 116–118, 196–197, 206; technologies of, 96, 98, 104–105, 166 Mencken, H. L., 127 Meyer, Birgit, 105, 116–117 Mitchell, S. Weir, 48, 60–61, 64, 70–71 Moore, Roy, 172 Motlib, Abdul, 162–163, 190, 191, 239n19, 239n22; petition for adhān, 165, 166, 174, 186, 187 Muslims, 14, 154, 156, 158–194, 198, 207, 235n31, 237n10, 238n15, 240n34, 240n35, 241n45, 242n50, 243n60, 244n7. See also Adhān Neutrality, 13, 75, 98, 99, 115–118, 126, 128–130, 132, 134, 139–141, 145–146, 148, 150, 152–156, 170–171, 177, 182, 192, 197, 199–201 Noise, 2–4; and civility, 79–80, 84–85, 89, 106, 117, 134, 197; and civilization, 56–61, 64–65, 71–72, 73–74, 91, 95–96, 178; legal protection for, 94–95, 111, 167–168; legal protection from, 24–25, 26–27, 31–32, 33–35, 39, 52–53, 91, 94, 111, 122–123, 26, 128–130, 134, 141–142, 170, 172–179; mechanical regulation of, 145–146; and power, 166; in Protestant culture, 10; psychological protection from, 34, 48–49, 53, 60, 72; as relationship, 4; and religious dissent, 22, 25, 28, 30, 80, 98, 126; as sacred, 20–21, 24, 38...

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