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How to be secular: a call to arms for religious freedom

Book information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9780544105164, 0544105168, 9780547473345, 0547473346
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
783 kB (801803 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
306\0
Time added
2018-09-06 22:25:49

Description

The author argues that a return to a more secular America will promote religious diversity and freedom and help eliminate the widening divide between religious conservatives and staunch atheists. Part I. What secularism is and isn't : What is secularism? (the basic package) -- Were the founders secular? -- Does secularism equal total separation of church and state? -- Does secularism equal atheism? -- How not to be secular -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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.

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