Secularization : in defence of an unfashionable theory / by Bruce, Steve, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Describing secularization -- Explaining secularization -- Clarifying secularization -- Religion outside the churches -- Contemporary spirituality -- Superstition -- The supply-side alternative -- Unexceptional America -- Secularization elsewhere -- Will conflict reverse secularization?…”
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Rethinking Secularism. by Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Western secularity / Charles Taylor -- The secular, secularizations, secularisms / José Casanova -- Secularism, citizenship, and the public sphere / Craig Calhoun -- Rehabilitating secularism / Rajeev Bhargava -- The multiple secularisms of modern democratic and non-democratic regimes / Alfred Stepan -- Civilizational states, secularism, and religions / Peter J. …”
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Secularism and Biblical Studies. by Boer, Roland

Table of Contents: “…The Challenge of Public Theology to Biblical Studies; Part D: The Paradoxes of Secularism; Neither Religious nor Secular: On Saving the Critic in Biblical-Criticism; From Jefferson's Bible to Judge Moore's Ten Commandments Monument: Secularizing the Bible in the USA.…”
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Secularism and Religion-Making. by Dressler, Markus

Table of Contents: “…On the Apocalyptic Tones of Islam in Secular Time; 5. Secularism, "Religious Violence," and the Liberal Imaginary; 6. …”
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The sacred in the secular /

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American secularism : cultural contours of nonreligious belief systems / by Baker, Joseph O., 1938-, Smith, Buster G.

Table of Contents: “…A nation of nonbelievers -- Classifying secularities -- A cultural view of secularities -- Historical foundations -- The great abdicating -- Nonreligious belief systems -- Ethnicity, assimilation, and secularity -- Gender and secularity -- Marriage, family, and social networks -- The (explicit) politics of secularity -- A secular, cosmical movement?…”
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Retratos seculares David Hume y John Stuart Mill sobre el significado de la religión / by JARENO ALARCON, JOAQUIN

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Enlightenment and Secularism : Essays on the Mobilization of Reason. by Nadon, Christopher, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Foreword; Enlightenment and Secularism: Introduction; Italian; 1 Reason, Authority, and the People in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy; 2 Paolo Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict; British and Dutch; 3 The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; 4 The Problem of Natural Piety: Bacon on the Prospects of the Secularization Project; 5 Bacon's New Atlantis: From Faith in God to Faith in Progress; 6 Dutch Commercial Republicanism in the Story of Secularization: Pieter De la Court's Political Maxims of the State of Holland (1662).…”
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The State of Secularism : Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa. by Leatt, Dhammamegha Annie

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and acronyms; Glossary; Preface; Chapter 1 Thinking secularism from South Africa; Chapter 2 A South African morality tale: Religion, tradition and racialised rule; Chapter 3 Negotiated consensus and religious rights; Chapter 4 Re-establishing traditional authority; Chapter 5 The spirit of a new South Africa; Chapter 6 Secular constitutionalism in South Africa?…”
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The church and secularity : two stories of liberal society / by Gascoigne, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The two stories of liberal society -- Church, kingdom, and secularity -- The virtues of noninstrumental relationships -- Christian hope and the Eucharist : witness and service -- Two stories of liberal society and contemporary -- Catholic identity.…”
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Secular Contract : the Politics of Enlightenment. by Schulman, Alex

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Secular lyric : the modernization of the poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / by Michael, John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd -- Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity -- Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss -- Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd -- Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death -- The poet as lyric reader -- Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.…”
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How (not) to be secular : reading Charles Taylor / by Smith, James K. A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Our cross-pressured present : inhabiting a secular age -- Reforming belief : the secular as modern accomplishment -- The religious path to exclusive humanism : from deism to atheism -- The malaise of immanence : the "feel" of a secular age -- Contesting the secularization thesis -- How (not) to live in a secular age -- Conclusion : Conversions -- Glossary.…”
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Faithful to secularism : the religious politics of democracy in Ireland, Senegal and the Philippines / by Buckley, David T.

Table of Contents: “…Benevolent secularism : a theory of the religious politics of democracy -- Secular emergence in Ireland : Home Rule and Rome Rule? …”
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Encountering the secular : philosophical endeavors in religion and culture / by Atchley, J. Heath, 1973-

Subjects: “…Secularism.…”
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Secular revelations : the Constitution of the United States and classic American literature / by Meltzer, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Constitution and American literature -- At the beginning -- The path to Union -- The people, having spoken, speak -- Almost a miracle -- The paradox of secular revelation -- Declarations of American literary independence -- Preserving the revelation -- Preserving the paradox -- The literary renaissance of secular revelation -- Essays in time -- A poetic form for straying -- Clinging to narrative -- Confidence and the darkness of revelation -- Conclusion : the literary art of uniting states.…”
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Secular Cycles. by Turchin, Peter

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The secular and the sacred : nation, religion, and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Greece: a problematic secular state /…”
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Secularizing the Sacred. by Webster, John E.

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Secular Cycles. by Turchin, Peter

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Secularism in question : Jews and Judaism in modern times / by Katz, Ethan

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Jews and secularism / Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz -- "Our Rabbi Baruch" : Spinoza and radical Jewish enlightenment / Daniel B. …”
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Sacred and secular : religion and politics worldwide / by Norris, Pippa

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1st of Tables; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; PART I Understanding Secularization; 1 The Secularization Debate; Traditional Theories of Secularization; The Rational Weltanschauung: The Loss of Faith; Functional Evolution: The Loss of Purpose; The Theory of Religious Markets: The Loss of Competition; The Thesis of Secularization Based on Existential Security; The Security Axiom; The Cultural Traditions Axiom; Hypotheses; 1. …”
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Atheism and Secularity. by Zuckerman, Phil

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Atheism and Secularity: Volume 1; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Social Scientific Study of Atheism and Secularity; Chapter 1: What Is Atheism?…”
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Religion and secularity : transformations and transfers of religious discourses in Europe and Asia /

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures; List of Uncomon Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on Eighteenth Century European Secularism; The Religious and the Secular: Semantic Reconfigurations of the Religious Field in Germany from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; The Origin of the Concept of Laïcité in Nineteenth Century France; Secularization, Re-Enchantment, or Something in between? …”
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On Secular Governance : Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues. by Duty, Ronald W.

Table of Contents: “…African Americans and Secular Law: A Paradoxical Relationship; Richard J. …”
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Secularizing the sacred : aspects of Israeli visual culture / by Mishory, Alec

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 3 "The Garden of Love": Early Zionist Eroticism3.1 The Garden of Love: a Remedial Institution for Nervous Atrophy; 3.2 In the Song of Songs Pavilion; 3.3 The New Jew: Intellect and Sensuality Combined; 3.4 Kisses and Embraces; 3.5 Orientalism and Symbolism in the Zionist-Biblical World; 3.6 The Secular Bride; Chapter 4 Zionist Revival and Rebirth on the Façade of the Municipal School in Tel Aviv; 4.1 Past and Present Come Together; 4.2 Four Hebrew Cities; Part 2 Objects and Conceptions of Sovereignty; Chapter 5 Israel's Scroll of Independence…”
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The Transnationality of the Secular Travelling Ideas and Shared Practices of Secularism in Decolonising South and Southeast Asia. by Six, Clemens

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- The Transnationality of the Secular: Travelling Ideas and Shared Practices of Secularism in Decolonising South and Southeast Asia -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction: The Possibility of Global Secularism Studies -- 1 Transnational Discourses on Secularism -- 2 Social Networks for a Secular State -- 3 Circuits of Expertise and Geopolitics -- 4 Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References…”
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The secular commedia : comic mimesis in late eighteenth-century music / by Allanbrook, Wye Jamison

Table of Contents: “…Cover; THE SECULAR COMMEDIA; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Music Examples; Foreword; 1. …”
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State and secularism : perspectives from Asia /

Table of Contents: “…An East Asian perspective on religion and secularism / Prasenjit Duara -- Secularism and its limits / Ten Chin Liew -- The secular state and its challenges / Michael Heng Siam-Heng) -- Rawlsian liberalism, secularism, and the call for cosmopolitanism / Saranindranath Tagore -- The Machiavellian problem and liberal secularism / Benjamin Wong -- Secularism, critical conviction and the 21st century project of the European Union: some thoughts from Asia / Barnard Turner -- Secular religiosity in Chinese politics: a Confucian perspective / Tan Sor Hoon -- State and secularism: the French Laïcité system / Anne-Cécile Robert, Henri Pen̋a-Ruiz -- Secularism and the constitution: striking the right balance / Kevin Y.L. …”
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Contesting secularism : comparative perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Secularism : general lines -- pt. II. Secularism : illustrations.…”
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The church and secularity : two stories of liberal society / by Gascoigne, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The two stories of liberal society -- Church, kingdom, and secularity -- The virtues of noninstrumental relationships -- Christian hope and the Eucharist : witness and service -- Two stories of liberal society and contemporary -- Catholic identity.…”
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Limiting secularism : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film / by Kumar, Priya

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: At Home with the Stranger; 1 Rethinking Secularism; 2 For God's Sake, Open the Universe a Little More: Cosmopolitan Fictions; 3 Acts of Return: Literature and Post-Partition Memory; 4 Fictions of Violence: Witnessing and Survival in Partition Literature; 5 It's My Home, Too: Minoritarian Claims on the Nation; Postscript; Notes; Index.…”
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The Secular Mind. by Coles, Robert

Subjects: “…Secularism United States.…”
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Rethinking secularization : philosophy and the prophecy of a secular age /

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Secular missionaries : Americans and African development in the 1960s / by Grubbs, Larry

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Secularism or democracy? : associational governance of religious diversity / by Bader, Veit-Michael

Table of Contents: “…Priority for liberal democracy or secularism? Why I am not a secularist --…”
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Responding to secularization : the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden / by Green, Todd H.

Table of Contents: “…The secularization debate : an introduction to the problematic relationship between religion and modernity --…”
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At the limits of the secular : reflections on faith and public life /

Table of Contents: “…Religion in the public realm: three forms of publicness / David Tracy -- Public reason and intercultural dialogue / Peter Casarella -- Catholicity, globalization, and post-secularity / Robert Schreiter -- The invention of the religious-secular distinction / William T. …”
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The secular visionaries : aestheticism and New Zealand short fiction in the twentieth century / by Gwynne, Joel

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The Secular Outlook : In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism. by Cliteur, Paul

Table of Contents: “…The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Secular Outlook; 1: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism; 2: Freethought I : Criticism of Religion; 3: Freethought II : Freedom of Expression; 4: Moral and Political Secularism; Selected Reading; Index.…”
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