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  • Secularism: The Basics

    Serier serie The Basics
    Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe.In this lively and lucid book, Jacques Berlinerblau addresses why secularism is defined in so many ways and why it so ignites people’s passions. In so doing, he explores the following important questions: What does secularism mean? Why should we care about ... Læs mere

    235,93 kr.

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  • The West and the Rest

    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

    af Roger Scruton ...
    Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Taming the Gods

    Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

    af Ian Buruma ...
    For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has been hindered in ... Læs mere

    105,86 kr.

  • God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

    A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion"s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite ... Læs mere

    173,49 kr.

  • How to Be Secular

    A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

    Why secularism isn't the same thing as atheism—and why it's crucial for preserving liberty and democracy for all Americans, regardless of their beliefs.Founding father Thomas Jefferson believed that "religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God," but these days many people seem to have forgotten this ideal. Conservatives claim America is a "Christian nation" and urge that laws be ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

    Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    af Eric Kaufmann ...
    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 arguments of secularists. And what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share ... Læs mere

    139,37 kr.

  • The Conservative Soul

    How We Lost It; How to Get It Back

    Is the GOP now a religious party? "As engaging as it is provocative. . . . should be read closely by liberals as well as conservatives." —Jonathan Raban, The New York Review of BooksOne of the nation's leading political commentators makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from the excesses of the Republican far right, which has tried to make the GOP the first fundamentally religious party ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Secularism

    This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political ... Læs mere

    298,61 kr.

  • Nonbeliever Nation

    The Rise of Secular Americans

    af David Niose ...
    A new group of Americans is challenging the reign of the Religious RightToday, nearly one in five Americans are nonbelievers - a rapidly growing group at a time when traditional Christian churches are dwindling in numbers - and they are flexing their muscles like never before. Yet we still see almost none of them openly serving in elected office, while Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and many others ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.

  • Secularism Confronts Islam

    af Olivier Roy ...
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    The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French-and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible ... Læs mere

    146,99 kr.

  • God's Continent

    Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis

    Is the Christian church in Europe doomed to collapse under the weight of globalization, Western secularism, and a flood of Muslim immigrants? Is Europe on the brink of becoming "Eurabia"? Though many pundits are predicting just such a scenario, God's Continent reveals the flaws in these arguments and offers a much more measured assessment of Europe's religious future. While frankly acknowledging ... Læs mere

    102,11 kr.