The secular religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff : an intellectual history of anti-intellectualism in modern America / by Vliegenthart, Dave

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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture /

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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Texts reading texts, sacred and secular / by Jack, Alison M.

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Religion, the secular, and the politics of sexual difference /

Table of Contents: “…Sexuality and Secularism / Saba Mahmood -- 4. Must It Be Either Secular or Religious? …”
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Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred : representation and change / by Knott, Kim

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Media, Religion and Society: Terrain and Debates; 2 Changing Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred; 3 Media Representations of Christianity in Public Life; 4 The Reporting of Islam and Other Religious Traditions; 5 Media Representations of Atheism and Secularism; 6 Popular Belief and Ritual Practice, and their Media Representations; 7 The Case of Geert Wilders, Multiculturalism and Identity; 8 Reclaiming Religion in Secular Public Life: The Media on the Papal Visit.…”
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The eighteenth-century novel and the secularization of ethics / by Stewart, Carol (Carol Ann)

Table of Contents: “…Secularizing ethics: from Pamela to Tom Jones -- Opposition and persuasion: from Roderick Random to Humphry Clinker -- Rewriting ethics: David Simple, The female Quixote and Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph -- Tristram Shandy: Latitudinarianism and liberty -- Hurtful insignificance: the novel in the later eighteenth century.…”
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Rattle conducts : Carmina Burana gala concert from Berlin.

Subjects: “…Cantatas, Secular.…”
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Religion and the secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…Science as Religion: The Role of Scientism in the Secularization Process in Eastern Germany -- 2. Secular Rituals and Political Commemorations in Eastern Germany, 1945-1956 -- 3. …”
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The refugee crisis and religion : secularism, security and hospitality in question /

Table of Contents: “…Religion and the global migration crisis : beyond conceptual and physical boundaries / Erin Wilson and Luca Mavelli -- Refugees, migrants, and world order : questioning the secular/religious divide / Richard Falk -- Challenging the discourse on religion, secularism and displacement / Alistair Ager and Joey Ager -- Praxis community projects : a secular organisation? …”
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The modern spirit of Asia : the spiritual and the secular in China and India / by Veer, Peter van der

Table of Contents: “…Spirituality in modern society -- The making of oriental religion -- Conversion to Indian and Chinese modernities -- Secularism's magic -- "Smash temples, build schools": comparing secularism in India and China -- The spiritual body -- Muslims in India and China.…”
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The modern spirit of Asia : the spiritual and the secular in China and India / by Veer, Peter van der

Table of Contents: “…Spirituality in modern society -- The making of oriental religion -- Conversion to Indian and Chinese modernities -- Secularism's magic -- "Smash temples, build schools": comparing secularism in India and China -- The spiritual body -- Muslims in India and China.…”
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Medieval crossover : reading the secular against the sacred / by Newman, Barbara, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; MEDIEVAL CROSSOVER; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface ; List of Illustrations ; Chapter 1 Theorizing Crossover: Principles and Case Studies ; A Hermeneutics of Both/And ; Felix Culpa and the Principle of Double Judgment ; Pagan Matiere, Christian Sen, and Secular Conjointure.…”
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Faith as an option : possible futures for Christianity by Joas, Hans, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : secularization and intellectual honesty -- Does modernization lead to secularization? …”
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Die andere Seite des Islam. by Kinitz, Daniel

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Religion in public : Locke's political theology by Pritchard, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann)

Table of Contents: “…Fashionable religion -- Wordish ways and ritual bodies -- Liberal political theology -- Force at a distance -- Secular family values -- They're only words but they're killing me softly.…”
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Islam as Political Religion : the Future of an Imperial Faith.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A note on Arabic transliteration and on Islamic dates -- Introduction -- Part I The prophetic consummation: Islam as original and final religion -- 1 A prophetic religion -- 2 A literary religion -- 3 A universal religion -- Part II The twin birth: Islam as empowered religion -- 4 A political religion: Muhammad as statesman -- 5 A secular religion: Faith or ideology? -- 6 A legal religion -- 7 An imperial religion -- Part III The crucible of reason: Islam as contemporary religion -- 8 A rational religion -- 9 An ethical religion -- 10 A private religion -- Part IV Epilogue -- 11 The future scope of an imperial faith -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Race in a godless world : atheism, race, and civilization, 1850-1914 by Alexander, Nathan G.

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BBC Proms. 2000, The last night of the BBC Proms. Tribute to Foster by Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961

Subjects: “…Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.…”
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BBC Proms. 2011, Last night of the Proms. Musica benevolens by Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016

Subjects: “…Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.…”
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The crisis of modernity by Del Noce, Augusto, 1910-1989

Table of Contents: “…Translator's Introduction -- Part One Modernity, Revolution, Secularization. The Idea of Modernity -- Violence and Modern Gnosticism -- Revolution, Risorgimento, Tradition -- The Latent Metaphysics within Contemporary Politics -- Secularization and the Crisis of Modernity.…”
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Le débat sur la laïcité québécoise (2013-2014). by Mathelet, Siegfried L.

Subjects: “…Secularism Québec (Province)…”
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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization : Negotiating Modernity in Iran. by Mirsepassi, Ali

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: modernity and "culture"; 1 Western narratives of modernity; 2 Reconciling with the West's Other; 3 The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam; 4 Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati; 5 German intellectuals and the culture of modernity; 6 The tragedy of the Iranian Left; 7 Modernities of our time; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Legitimizing human rights : secular and religious perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Grounding human rights : naturalism's failure and biblical theism's success / Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic University -- Theism and human rights / Paul Cliteur, University of Leiden -- Why human rights cannot be naturalized : the contingency problem / Angus Menuge, Concordia University Wisconsin -- Human rights as legal rights / Friedrich Toepel, University of Bonn -- Religious liberty and the secular state : human rights in a secular state will depend on its legal definition of religion / John Calvert, Intelligent Design Network -- Balancing secularism with religious freedom : in Lautsi v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights evolved / Vito Breda, University of Cardiff -- Restrictions on religious liberty : when and where justified? …”
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BBC Proms. 2018, Last night of the Proms. Part 1

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Jesuit higher education in a secular age : a response to Charles Taylor and the crisis of fullness / by Hendrickson, Daniel Scott

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction Jesuit Higher Education and the Restoration of Enchantment -- Chapter One The Search for Fullness in a Secular Age -- Chapter Two Developing Taylor's Conception of Fullness -- Chapter Three Charles Taylor in Educational Discourse -- Chapter Four Renaissance Humanistic Backgrounds of Jesuit Educational Thought -- Chapter Five The Tradition of Jesuit Education -- Chapter Six Higher Education in a Secular Age -- Conclusion Forming a Learned Imagination -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author…”
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2nd symphony in C minor by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911

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The disclosure of politics : struggles over the semantics of secularization / by Lara, María Pía

Table of Contents: “…Reinhart Koselleck's Model of Secularization: The Enlightenment as Problematic; 7. Jurgen Habermas's Innovation Model: Bringing Justice Into the Domain of Politics.…”
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New Testament theology in a secular world : a constructivist work in philosophical epistemology and Christian apologetics / by Lampe, Peter, 1954-

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Sacred and secular in medieval and early modern cultures : new essays /

Table of Contents: “…The secular expression of the sacred in Old and Middle English lyrics / Thomas G. …”
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The court book of Mende and the secular lordship of the bishop : recollecting the past in thirteenth-century Gévaudan / by Bulman, Jan K.

Table of Contents: “…Gevaudan to about 1200: Laying the Foundations of Remembrance -- 2. Course of Secular Lordship -- 3. Court Book and the Bishop's Court -- 4. …”
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The origins of Jewish secularization in eighteenth-century Europe / by Feiner, Shmuel

Table of Contents: “…Pleasures and liberation from religious supervision -- Temptations of fashion and passion -- The mystical sect: subversive Sabbateans -- The rationalist sect: neo-Karaites and deists -- Providence is tested: secularization on the rise in the 1760s -- The supremacy of nature: deists on the margins -- The emergence of the new world -- Scandals and rebellions -- Replacing Mosaic laws with laws of freedom -- On the decline of Judaism: the last decade -- Soon our faith will be lost: deists and believers.…”
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The court book of Mende and the secular lordship of the bishop : recollecting the past in thirteenth-century Gévaudan / by Bulman, Jan K.

Table of Contents: “…Gevaudan to about 1200: Laying the Foundations of Remembrance -- 2. Course of Secular Lordship -- 3. Court Book and the Bishop's Court -- 4. …”
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God and government : twenty-five years of fighting for equality, secularism, and freedom of conscience / by Lynn, Barry W.

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The pale god : Israeli secularism and Spinoza's philosophy of culture / by Katz, Gideon

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Three Options for Secularism in Israel -- 2 Why Spinoza? -- 3 Imagination and the Masses: An Outline of the Object of Politics -- 4 Political Secularism -- 5 The Role of the Philosopher in His Society in Times of Secularization -- 6 Traditionalism as a Secular Option in Israel -- Conclusion -- Bibliorgaphy -- Index…”
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Good music. Episode 20

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Makers of contemporary Islam by Esposito, John L., Voll, John Obert, 1936-

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Hindu nationalism and the language of politics in late colonial India by Gould, William, 1973-

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Between State and Synagogue : the Secularization of Contemporary Israel. by Ben-Porat, Guy

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Between State and Synagogue; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Secularization: Theoretical Context; Secularization: Israel as a Case Study; Main Argument and Methodology; Outline of the Book; Acknowledgments; 1 Unpacking Secularization; Secularization: from Inevitable to Debatable; Secularization, Religion, and Politics: a Neoinstitutional Framework; Political Arrangements: Religion and the State; Between Secularism and Secularization; All That Is Solid? …”
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Bernard Lonergan's Third Way of the Heart and Mind : Bridging Some Buddhist-Christian-Muslim-Secularist Misunderstandings with a Global Secularity Ethics. by Raymaker, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; I: Introducing the Heart-Mind Interdisciplinary Issues Explored in This Book; II: Sketching a GEM-FS Bridge's MEDIATING PHASE as Outlined in MiT's First Four Specialties : Probing into Buddhist-Christian-Muslim Teachings so as to Best Broach a Global Secularity Ethics; 1 First Functional Specialty; 2 Second Functional Specialty; 3 Third Functional Specialty; 4 Fourth Functional Specialty; III: Sketching a GEM-FS Bridge's Mediated Phase as Outlined in MiT's Last Four Specialties: Toward Enabling Needed Transformative Changes among the Religions and Secularity.…”
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Communities of the converted : Ukrainians and global evangelism by Wanner, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Spiritual seekers in a secularizing state, 1905-1941 -- Enlightening the faithful, 1941-1988 -- The rewards of suffering : the last Soviet refugees -- Missionizing, converting, and remaking the moral self -- God is love : new bonds, new communities -- Ambassadors of God -- Epilogue : religion as portal to the world.…”
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