The Oxford Handbook of Secularism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Zuckerman, Phil; Shook, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199988464
• Artikelnr.: 48796317

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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
* Niamh Reilly
* 26. Secularism, Race, and Political Affiliation in America
* Juhem Navarro-Rivera and Yazmín García Trejo
* 27. Black Infidels
* Sikivu Hutchinson
* 28. Secularism and U.S. Religion Jurisprudence
* Caroline Corbin
* 29. Separating Church and State in America
* David Niose
* Part Five: Secularity and Society
* 30. Varieties of Secular Experience
* David Eller
* 31. Secular Living
* Jesse Smith
* 32. Secular Prosociality and Well-being
* Luke Galen
* 33. Secularism and the Science of Well-being
* David Yaden, Jonathan Iwry, Emily Esfahani Smith, James Pawelski
* 34. Secular Spirituality
* Robert C. Fuller
* 35. Nonreligious People in Religious Societies
* Will Gervais and Maxine Najle
* 36. The Challenge of Leaving Religion and Becoming Secular
* Marlene Winell
* Part Six: Morality and Secular Ethics
* 37. Agency and Responsibility in a Natural World
* Erik Wielenberg
* 38. The Evolution of Sociality, Helping and Morality
* Dennis Krebs and Kaleda Denton
* 39. Ethics, Secular and Religious
* John Teehan
* 40. Secular Ethics, East and West
* Sor-hoon Tan
* 41. Secularism, Humanism, and Secular Humanism
* Joseph Blankholm
* 42. Humanism as a Positive Outcome of Secularism
* Joachim Duyndam
* 43. Secularization, Bio-medical Technology and Life Extension
* Brian S. Turner
* Index