Secularism : politics, religion, and freedom
Record details
- ISBN: 0192536826
- ISBN: 9780192536822
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Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
remote - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. What is secularism? Separation of religious institutions from state institutions ; Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion ; Equal treatment on grounds of religion or non-religious world view -- 2. Secularism in Western societies. Christians and the idea of secularism ; Enlightenment and the theory of secularism ; France and laïcité ; America and freedom of religion ; Modern Western societies -- 3. Secularism diversifies. Turkey: the Laik Republic ; India and the secularism of diversity ; International secularism -- 4. The case for secularism. Individual freedom ; Fairness ; Peace ; Modernity and democracy ; A cumulative case -- 5. The case against secularism. Nations under God ; Islamic states ; Established churches ; Nations under Marx ; Romantic conservatism ; The myth of neutrality ; A community of communities -- 6. Conceptions of secularism. Secularism and the secular ; Two types of Western secularism ; Separation of church and state ; The twin tolerations ; Principled distance ; Secularism as a shared political ethic ; Proliferating secularisms ; Secularism in constitutions ; Campaigning secularists -- 7. Hard questions and new conflicts. Secularism in practice ; Schools and education ; Blasphemy and criticism of religions ; Religious expression in a secular state: religious dress and symbols ; Religious expression in a secular state: conscience ; Religious diversity in the West ; Resurgent political religion ; Secularism challenged as never before? -- Afterword: the future of secularism -- References and further reading -- Index. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 27, 2017). |
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Subject: | Secularism Church and state |