| Description |
xxix, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
What secularism is and isn't. What is secularism? (the basic package) ; Where the founders secular? ; Does secularism equal total separation of church and state? ; Does secularism equal atheism? ; How not to be secular -- The very peculiar "rise" and fall of American secularism. The "rise" of American secularism and the secularish ; The fall of American secularism ; Are democrats secularists? ; The Christian nation and the GOP -- Reviving American secularism. Who could be a secularist? ; How to be secularish (in praise of "secular Jews" and "cafeteria Catholics") ; Tough love for American secularism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Weary of religious conservatives urging "defense of marriage" and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image? Americans are stuck in an all-or-nothing landscape for religion in public life. What are reasonable citizens to do? Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In How to Be Secular, Berlinerblau argues for a return to America's hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other. |
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Secularism -- United States.
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Freedom of religion -- United States.
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United States -- Religion.
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Church and state -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780547473345: $26.00 |
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0547473346 |
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