Lebanon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lebanon write by Mark Farha. This book was released on 2019-08-15. Lebanon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles secularism in Lebanon up to the present day, presenting possible causes for its decline in the face of sectarianism.
The Secular State Under Siege
The Secular State Under Siege - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secular State Under Siege write by Christian Joppke. This book was released on 2015-04-22. The Secular State Under Siege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the return of public religion. This cogent analysis unravels the nature of the connection, disconnection, and attempted reconnection between religion and politics in the West. In a comparison of Western Europe and North America, Christianity and Islam, Joppke advances far-reaching theoretical, historical, and comparative-political arguments. With respect to theory, it is argued that only a “substantive” concept of religion, as pertaining to the existence of supra-human powers, opens up the possibility of a historical-comparative perspective on religion. At the level of history, secularization is shown to be the distinct outcome of Latin Christianity itself. And at the level of comparative politics, the Christian Right in America which has attacked the “wall of separation” between religion and state and Islam in Europe with the controversial insistence on sharia law and other “illiberal” claims from some quarters are taken to be counterpart incarnations of public religion and challenges to the secular state. This clearly argued, sweeping book will provide an invaluable framework for approaching an array of critical issues at the intersection of religion, law and politics for advanced students and researchers across the social sciences and legal studies, as well as for the interested public.
Science under Siege
Science under Siege - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science under Siege write by Dick Houtman. This book was released on 2021-05-12. Science under Siege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Identifying scientism as religion’s secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universally binding truth claims, be they religiously or scientifically informed. Approaching the issue from a cultural-sociological perspective and building on theories from the sociology of religion, the volume unearths the cultural mechanisms that account for the headwind faced by contemporary science. The empirical contributions highlight how the field of academic science has lost much of its former authority vis-à-vis competing social realms; how political and religious worldviews define particular research findings as favorites while dismissing others; and how much of today’s distrust of science is directed against scientific institutions and academic scientists rather than against science per se.
Secularism Under Siege
Secularism Under Siege - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secularism Under Siege write by Ẓahīr ʻAlī. This book was released on 2016. Secularism Under Siege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Theocons
The Theocons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theocons write by Damon Linker. This book was released on 2007-09-04. The Theocons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An essential history of the influential men who have spearheaded the movement to erode the wall separating church and state.Beginning as far-left radicals during the 1960s, the theocons in Damon Linker’s book (including Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel) gradually transitioned to conservatism when they grew frustrated with the failures of the decade’s revolutionary goals. Linker shows how, starting during the Reagan administration, they worked to forge a Christian alliance between Evangelical Protestants and Conservative Catholics. By injecting the language of faith into political life, this movement appealed to a wide swath of voters and ultimately played a central role in the election of George W. Bush. The Theocons is an absorbing and revelatory look at an ideological crusade that every American needs to know about.
