Rethinking secularism
by Calhoun, Craig J., Juergensmeyer, Mark, VanAntwerpen, Jonathan
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Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious & mdash; political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Chr…
Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contempor…
Many people still believe in life after death, but modern institutions operate as though this were the only world - eternity is now eclipsed from view in society and even in the church. This text observes the eclipse of the afterlife and assesses its circumstances and future.
When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science, and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself, would reign supreme as the new religion. Th…
Secularization and Its Discontents provides an overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. --from publisher description