"One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: retu…
Drawing on extensive demographic research, and considering questions of multiculturalism, nationalism and terrorism, Eric Kaufmann examines the implications of the decline in liberal secularism as religious conservatism rises.
This title explains demography and politics in the twenty-first century. It may be that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have won the argument for secularism with the majority of the West. But the facts point in the other direction: what no one has noticed is that far fr…
Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant …
Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. He was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading role in the shaping and dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. This title provides an acc…
"Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist--all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to thi…
Fundamentalism or Tradition: Christianity after Secularism
by Jakelić, Slavica, Griffiths, Paul J., Ward, Graham, Mayer, Wendy, Asproulis, Nikolaos, Moore, Brenna, Appleby, R. Scott, Gallaher, Brandon, Guroian, Vigen, Fozard Weaver, Darlene, Herbel, Dellas Oliver, Humphrey, Edith M., Kizenko, Nadieszda
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Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist--all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to thin…
Tradition, secularization and fundamentalism-all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation, they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. The discussion around the mutually implicated meanings of the "secular" and "fundamental…
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer,…