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Zusatztext Throughout the text, the myriad contributors offer observations and analysis on the ethics, effects, and challenges of secularism. These threads weave throughout the extensive and diverse range of topics, pulling them together into a surprisingly cohesive set of commentaries. The result is not a book without fault, but one whose collective merits far outweigh any particular gripes. The final point in favor of the text is its forty-three page index. Exhaustive and well-organized, it provides the necessary mechanism for navigating a handbook of this size and scope. This text is an essential reference book Informationen zum Autor Phil Zuckerman is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Program in Secular Studies at Pitzer College. He is co-author (with Frank Pasquale and Luke Galen) of The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies (OUP 2016) and author of Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion (OUP 2011).John R. Shook is Director of Education and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry and Visiting Assistant Professor of Science Education and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Secularism offers a wide-ranging examination of secularism on a global scale, bringing together an international collection of views from prominent experts in a variety of fields. This volume reflects the impressive level of academic attention now given to secularism across the humanities, social sciences, law and public policy, and international relations. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Secularism offers a wide-ranging examination of secularism on a global scale, bringing together an international collection of views from prominent experts in a variety of fields. This volume reflects the impressive level of academic attention now given to secularism across the humanities, social sciences, law and public policy, and international relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction: The Study of Secularism Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook Part One: Identifying the Secular, Secularity, Secularization, and Secularism 1. Identifying (with) the Secular Johannes Quack 2. Religious/Non-Religious Demography and Religion v. Science: A Global Perspective Ariela Keysar 3. Secularization and its Consequences Steve Bruce 4. The Imagined War between Secularism and Religion Mark Juergensmeyer 5. Political Secularism Jacques Berlinerblau 6. Political Secularism and Democracy in Theory and Practice Jonathan Fox Part Two: Secular Governments 7. Anglo-American Secular Government John Perry 8. Secularism in France Amélie Barras 9. Secularism in Turkey Kenan Sevinc, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Thomas Coleman 10. Secularization in Israel Guy Ben-Porat 11. Secularism, State Neutrality, and Islam Abdullah Saeed 12. Secular Government in sub-Saharan Africa Baffour K. Takyi 13. Secularism in India Vidhu Verma 14. Soviet Atheism and its Aftermath Sonja Luehrmann 15. Sacred, Secular, and Neo-sacred Governments in China and Taiwan Cheng-tian Kuo Part Three: Contesting Political Secularism 16. Religion in the Public Sphere Cristina Lafont 17. The Liberal Betrayal of Secularism Shadia B. Drury 18. Religious Freedom in a Secular Society Roger Trigg 19. Communicative Reason and Religious Faith in Secular and Post-Secular Contexts Jacob Goodson 20. Secularisms or Liberal-Democratic Constitutionalism Veit Bader 21. Multiculturalizing Secularism Tariq Modood 22. Secularisms or Critique of Religio-Secularism Yolande Jansen Part Four: Politics of Church and State 23. A Secular Critique of Religious Ethics and Politics Paul Cliteur 24. Secular Education and Religion James Arthur 25. Secularism, Feminism and the Public Sphere<...
