extremist profile remain unscathed by punitive governmental or social measures because of their pre- existing social popularity or perceived normalcy. This volume discusses the nature of this issue and its practical ramifications, demonstrating how scholars can analytically critique "good/bad religion" rhetoric as it appears in scholarship today. The book is organized around four different social institutions through which these value judgments have been established and deployed-within politics, the media, the university, and the classroom. vEach of these institutions is the subject of a central chapter highlighting a case study or example of the "good/bad" distinction at work. The responses that follow extrapolate from this chapter to provide an analysis on how such rhetoric operates in that particular social realm.