The Secular Outlook

Author : Paul Cliteur
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444390445

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The Secular Outlook by Paul Cliteur Pdf

The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a "secular outlook" on life and politics. Shows how secularism can answer the problem of religious terrorism Provides new perspectives on how religious minorities can be integrated into liberal democracies Reveals how secularism has gained a new political and moral significance. Also examines such topics as atheism, religious criticism and free speech

Author : Paul A. Macdonald, Jr.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317166634

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Christian Theology and the Secular University by Paul A. Macdonald, Jr. Pdf

If the secular university by definition is non-sectarian or non-denominational, then how can it accommodate a discipline like Christian theology? Doesn’t the traditional goal of theological study, which is to attain knowledge of the divine, fundamentally conflict with the main goal of secular academic study, which is to attain knowledge about ourselves and the world in which we live? So why should theology be admitted, or even care about being admitted, into secular academic life? And even if theology were admitted, what contribution to secular academic life could it make? Working from a Christian philosophical and theological perspective but also engaging a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and religious studies scholars, Christian Theology and the Secular University takes on these questions, arguing that Christian theology does belong in the secular university because it provides distinct resources that the secular university needs if it is going to fulfill what should be its main epistemic and educative ends. This book offers a fresh and unique perspective to scholars working in the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and religious studies, and to those in other academic disciplines who are interested in thinking critically and creatively about the place and nature of theological study within the secular university.

Author : Doris Kadish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800859661

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The Secular Rabbi by Doris Kadish Pdf

The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cultural background. Drawing on letters Rahv wrote to her mother from 1928 to 1931, when he was still named Philip Greenberg, Doris Kadish delves into the complex and enigmatic character of a man admired by luminaries as diverse as George Orwell, Mary McCarthy, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Hardwick, and William Styron. Textual analyses of Rahv's works are woven together with other disparate materials: historical accounts, genealogical records, memoirs by Rahv's colleagues, friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. Kadish positions herself in relation to Rahv in attempting to understand her own Jewish identity. In tracing Rahv's personal, political, and literary evolution, Kadish sheds light on such literary movements as modernism, proletarian literature, and Jewish writing as well as movements that defined American political history in the 20th century: immigration, socialism, communism, fascism, the cold war, feminism, and the New Left.

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470674031

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Freedom of Religion and the Secular State by Russell Blackford Pdf

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day. Freedom of Religion and the Secular State offers a comprehensive analysis, with a global focus, of the subject of religious freedom from a legal as well as historical and philosophical viewpoint. It makes an original contribution to current debates about freedom of religion, and addresses a whole range of hot-button issues that involve the relationship between religion and the state, including the teaching of evolution in schools, what to do about the burqa, and so on.

Author : Margaret Jacob
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691216768

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The Secular Enlightenment by Margaret Jacob Pdf

Provides a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Jacob reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Jacob demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come. --Adapted from publisher description.

Author : Rafael Domingo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107147317

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God and the Secular Legal System by Rafael Domingo Pdf

This is a timely contribution to the debate on the rights and liberties of religion, beliefs, and conscience in an age of secularization.

Author : Joseph Blankholm
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479809509

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The Secular Paradox by Joseph Blankholm Pdf

"Secular people are strangely ambiguous. They feel a tension between what they don't share and what they have in common-between avoiding religion and embracing something like it. An event as ordinary as a wedding can be uncomfortable if it feels too religious, and even for those who are indifferent to religion, a passing reference to God can be cringeworthy. And yet, religion is tough to avoid completely without living in its remainder. The Secular Paradox explains why. Relying on several years of ethnographic research among secular activists and organized nonbelievers in the United States, Blankholm shows how secular people are both absolutely not religious and part of a religion-like tradition, which includes beliefs and institutions, as well embodied practices. Recovering this tradition makes legible what secular people share with one another and explains why the secular movement in the United States remains predominately white and male. Humanistic Jews, Hispanic Freethinkers, Ex-Muslims, and black nonbelievers are secular misfits whose stories reveal the contours of the secular most clearly by proving to be more and less than what remains when Christianity is removed. The Secular Paradox offers a radically new way of understanding secularism and secular people by explaining the origins of their inherent contradiction and its awkward effects on their lives. This new understanding matters for anyone who has ever avoided something because it felt too religious, everyone who considers themselves secular, and all those who want to understand them better"--

Author : Anna Tomaszewska,Hasse Hämäläinen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319653945

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The Sources of Secularism by Anna Tomaszewska,Hasse Hämäläinen Pdf

This book examines the importance of the Enlightenment for understanding the secular outlook of contemporary Western societies. It shows the new ways of thinking about religion that emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries and have had a great impact on how we address problems related to religion in the public sphere today. Based on the assumption that political concepts are rooted in historical realities, this collection combines the perspective of political philosophy with the perspective of the history of ideas. Does secularism imply that individuals are not free to manifest their beliefs in public? Is secularization the same as rejecting faith in the absolute? Can there be a universal rational core in every religion? Does freedom of expression always go hand in hand with freedom of conscience? Is secularism an invention of the predominantly Christian West, which cannot be applied in other contexts, specifically that of Muslim cultures? Answers to these and related questions are sought not only in current theories and debates in political philosophy, but also in the writings of Immanuel Kant, Benedict Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, Anthony Collins, Adriaan Koerbagh, Abbé Claude Yvon, Giovanni Paolo Marana, and others.

Author : C. John Sommerville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0195306953

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The Decline of the Secular University by C. John Sommerville Pdf

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Author : Herta Nagl-Docekal,Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111247878

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Religion in the Secular Age by Herta Nagl-Docekal,Waldemar Zacharasiewicz Pdf

What does it mean to be religious believers for people whose living conditions are defined by an increasingly secularized environment? Is the common distinction between faith and knowledge valid? The 21 essays cover approaches from various fields of the humanities. Some explore post-Kantian thoughts, discussing, i.a., American Pragmatism, M. Buber, M. Horkheimer, H. Putnam, J. Habermas, Ch. Taylor and variants of deconstruction, while other essays focus on ways in which the conflict between agnostics and seekers is addressed in US literary works, as in Fl. O’Connor, W. Percy, N. Hawthorne, J. Updike and in novels dealing with pandemics, for instance by L. Wright, E. M. Wiseman and R. Cook. Historical studies examine the intermingling of the sacred and the secular in the American South and neo-scholastic objections to modernity. Theological issues are being re-framed in essays discussing the relevance of pluralism, the relation of religious conviction and public opinion, the situation of scientists who believe and the thoughts of N. Frye and M. McLuhan. Finally, essays pay attention to religious aspects in works of art, e.g. in Ukrainian poetry, G. Mahler’s symphonies and in a TV show presenting new “American Gods” of globalization.

Author : Sean McLoughlin,Jocelyne Cesari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351938501

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European Muslims and the Secular State by Sean McLoughlin,Jocelyne Cesari Pdf

The institutionalization of Islam in the West continues to raise many questions for a range of different constituencies. Secularization represents much more than the legal separation of politics and religion in Europe; for important segments of European societies, it has become the cultural norm. Therefore, Muslims' settlement and their claims for the public recognition of Islam have often been perceived as a threat. This volume explores current interactions between Muslims and the more or less secularized public spaces of several European states, assessing the challenges such interactions imply for both Muslims and the societies in which they now live. Divided into three parts, it examines the impact of State-Church relations, 'Islamophobia' and 'the war on terrorism', evaluates the engagement of Muslim leaders with the State and civil society, and reflects on both individual and collective transformations of Muslim religiosity.

Author : ÖMER KEMAL ŞAHİN
Publisher : Cinius Yayınları
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786258330977

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ROOT CAUSES OF WESTERN ANTI-ISLAMIC ANTAGONISM: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND THE SECULAR by ÖMER KEMAL ŞAHİN Pdf

This research seeks to examine the root causes of Western anti-Islamic antagonism in the three main realms of the West, i.e. Judaism, Christianity and the secular. To achieve this goal, it first focuses on the Jewish and Christian scriptures and perceptions in chronological order. Their respective manifestations in history are introduced encompassing the Medīna period, age of Islamic conquests, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period and Contemporary Period. Since the literature hardly conceptualises “Jewish” or “Christian” anti-Islamism as such, relevant knowledge was extracted from the present literature and put into a coherent narrative. The findings indicate that Jewish and Christian scriptures, particularly the passages about Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael and contents concerning eschatology, make anti-Islamic interpretations possible. Jewish anti-Islamic antagonism is observed to primarily stem from the ethnocentric self-perception and eschatological agenda of Judaism, whereas Christian antiIslamic antagonism from the ontological instability and eschatological scenarios of Christianity. In the subsequent chapter, the research examines the secular antagonism towards Islam and Muslims. The secular is approached in a theoretical framework of three levels that are paradigm, people and society. According to findings, secular antiIslamism appears to originate from the ideals of the secular to imagine a people, society and world order free of religion. The final chapter consists of evaluation of the findings and concrete suggestions to tackle the problem of Western anti-Islamism. Root Causes of Anti-Islamic Antagonism argues for a deep-rooted approach to anti-Islamism studies and suggests that it is a scholarly necessity to focus on these three main realms in the West to understand the anti-Islamic phenomena properly.

Author : Tom Rubens
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845404970

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Progressive Secular Society by Tom Rubens Pdf

A progressive secular society is one committed to the widening of scientific knowledge and humane feeling. It regards humanity as part of physical nature and opposes any appeal to supernatural agencies or explanations. In particular, human moral perspectives are human creations and the only basis for ethics. Secular values need re-affirming in the face of the resurgence of aggressive supernatural religious doctrines and practices. This book gives a set of ‘secular thoughts for the day’ – many only a page or two long – on topics as varied as Shakespeare and Comte, economics, science and social action.

Author : John Thomas Dunlop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Inflation (Finance)
ISBN : UOM:35112104034105

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The Secular Outlook: Wages and Prices by John Thomas Dunlop Pdf

Author : Joachim W. Stieber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004052402

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Pope Eugenius IV, the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire by Joachim W. Stieber Pdf

Erratum slip inserted. Bibliography: p. [449]-484. Includes index.