The Oxford Handbook of SecularismPhil Zuckerman, John Shook As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are sweeping across regions and entire continents. And secularity is increasing in society, with a growing number of people in many regions having no religious affiliation or lacking interest in religion. Simultaneously, there is a resurgence of religious participation in the politics of many countries. How might these diverse phenomena be better understood? Long-reigning theories about the pace of secularization and ideal church-state relations are under invigorated scrutiny by scholars studying secularism with new questions, better data, and fresh perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Secularism offers a wide-ranging and in-depth examination of this global conversation, bringing together the views of an international collection of prominent experts in their respective fields. This is the essential volume for comprehending the core issues and methodological approaches to the demographics and sociology of secularity; the history and variety of political secularisms; the comparison of constitutional secularisms across many countries from America to Asia; the key problems now convulsing church-state relations; the intersections of liberalism, multiculturalism, and religion; the latest psychological research into secular lives and lifestyles; and the naturalistic and humanistic worldviews available to nonreligious people. |
Contents
Secularization and Its Consequences | |
The Imagined War between Secularism and Religion | |
Political Secularism | |
Political Secularism and Democracy in Theory and Practice | |
AngloAmerican Secular Government | |
A Secular Critique of Religious Ethics and Politics | |
Secular Education and Religion | |
Secularism Feminism and the Public Sphere | |
Secularism Race and Political Affiliation in America | |
Secular Humanism Atheism and African | |
Secularism and US Religion Jurisprudence | |
Separating Church and State in America | |
Varieties of Secular Experience | |
Secularism in France | |
Secularism in Turkey | |
Secularization in Israel | |
Secularism State Neutrality and Islam | |
Secular Government in SubSaharan Africa | |
Secularism in India | |
Soviet Atheism and Its Aftermath | |
Sacred Secular and Neosacred Governments in China | |
Religion in the Public Sphere | |
The Liberal Betrayal of Secularism | |
Religious Freedom in a Secular Society | |
Communicative Reason and Religious Faith in Secular | |
Secularisms or LiberalDemocratic Constitutionalism? | |
Multiculturalizing Secularism | |
A Critique of Religio | |
Many Paths Many Meanings | |
Secular Prosociality and WellBeing | |
Secularism and the Science of WellBeing | |
Secular Spirituality | |
Nonreligious People in Religious Societies | |
The Challenge of Leaving Religion and Becoming Secular | |
Agency and Responsibility in a Natural World | |
The Evolution of Sociality Helping and Morality | |
An EvolvedCognitive | |
Secular Ethics East and West | |
Terms | |
Humanism as a Positive Outcome of Secularism | |
Secularization Biomedical Technology and Life Extension | |
Index | |
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