Essays on the Philosophical Nexus between Religion and Politics. by Paparella, Emanuel L., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…; Essay 2; Irshad Manji on Faith, Freedom, Human Rights and Love: Why Opposing Religion via a Politico-Secular Discourse is a Blunder; Essay 3; Some Distinctions on Christian and Secular Humanism; Essay 4; An Imaginary Conversation on Myth, Reason and Religion between Plato and Joseph Campbell at an Athens Café; Essay 5; The Immigrant â#x80;#x9C;Otherâ#x80;#x9D; in US and EU Politico-Religious Experiences: A Comparative Perspective; Essay 6…”
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Evolutionary biology : conceptual, ethical, and religious issues /

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The End of Conceit : Western Rationality after Postcolonialism. by Chabal, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…-- THREE Ideas -- Individual -- Society -- Freedom -- Faith -- Market -- Change -- FOUR Interpretations -- To think is to theorise -- To theorise is to explain -- To explain is to act -- To act is to think (again) -- EPILOGUE Three questions -- Secularism -- Human rights -- Sovereignty -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Zed Books.…”
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Revolutionary change and democratic religion : Christianity, Vodou, and secularism / by Joseph, Celucien L.

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Aliens adored : Rael's UFO religion / by Palmer, Susan J.

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Understanding religion : theories and methods for studying religiously diverse societies / by Hedges, Paul 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Religion : language, law, and legacies -- Method : insider-outsider debates, phenomenology, and reflexivity -- Life : lived religion, syncretism, and hybridity -- History : historical methodology and the invention of tradition -- Power : social constructionism, habitus, and authority -- Identity : social identity theory, in-groups, out-groups, and conflict -- Colonialism : postcolonialism, orientalism, and decolonization -- Brains : the cognitive science of religion and beyond -- Bodies : material religion, embodiment, and materiality -- Gender : feminism, sexuality, and religion -- Comparison : comparative and contrastive methodologies -- Ritual : ritualization, myth, and performance ritual -- Diversity : religious borders, identities, and discourses -- Dialogue : interreligious discourse and critique -- Violence : fundamentalism, extremism, and radicalization -- Secularism : secularization, human rights, and religion -- Geography : place, the lived environment, and environmentalism -- Politics : governance, the colonial wound, and the sacred.…”
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Cather studies : Willa Cather as cultural icon /

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- Cather's secular humanism: writing anacoluthon and shooting out into the eternities / Joseph R. …”
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At the limits of the secular : reflections on faith and public life /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Love and justice: engaging Benedict XVI on Christian discipleship in a secular age / Mary Doak -- Multiple belongings: the persistence of community amidst societal differentiation / Michele Dillon -- Engaging religious and secular humanisms / Slavica Jakelić -- Religions in a globalizing world / J. …”
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Encyclopedia of politics and religion /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Russia -- Rwanda -- Sacred Places -- Sadat, Anwar -- Saints -- Sanctuary -- Saudi Arabia -- Scandinavia -- Science and Technology -- Secular Humanism -- Secularization -- Senegal -- Separation of Church and State as a Principle of Human Rights -- Separation of Church and State in Political Theory -- Seventh-day Adventism -- Sexuality -- Sharia -- Shinto -- Social Gospel -- Social Justice -- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. -- Somalia -- South Africa -- Spain -- Sri Lanka -- State Churches -- Sudan -- Sufism -- Sukarno, Achmad -- Survivalism -- Syria -- Taxation -- Temperance Movements -- Teresa, Mother -- Thailand -- Theocracy -- Theology, Public -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Traditional Religions, African -- Traditionalism -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Uganda -- Unification Church -- Unitarianism -- United States of America -- Utopianism -- Vatican -- Vatican Council, Second -- Vietnam -- Violence -- Voluntarism -- Voting -- War -- Weber, Max -- Westphalia, Peace of -- Witchcraft -- World Council of Churches --…”

Secular Nations under new gods : christianity's subversion by technology and politics / by Vanderburg, Willem H.

Table of Contents: “…Uprooting and Re-rooting the Creation's Fabric of RelationshipsThe End of Secular Human Life; God's Covenant and Humanity's Life Support; The Beginning of Human History; A New Beginning without God; 3 Language, Myth, and History; Making a Name; The Word, Human Words, and Cultures; Socially and Historically Naming Ourselves; Culture and Revelation; The Subversion of Symbolization; 4 Born Neither Free nor Equal, but Loved; An Enslaved Humanity; The Flesh and the World; A World Ruled by Principalities and Powers; The Demonic Powers; The Satanic Powers; Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse…”
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The Theft of History. by Goody, Jack

Table of Contents: “…6 The theft of 'civilization': Elias and Absolutist EuropeThe civilizing process; Experience in Ghana; 7 The theft of 'capitalism': Braudel and global comparison; Towns and the economy; Finance capitalism; The timing of capitalism; Part Three: Three institutions and values; 8 The theft of institutions, towns, and universities; Towns; Universities; Muslim education; Humanism; 9 The appropriation of values: humanism, democracy, and individualism; Humanism; Humanism and secularization; Humanism, human values, and westernization: rhetoric and practice; Democracy; Individualism, equality, freedom.…”
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Law, religion, constitution : freedom of religion, equal treatment, and the law / by Ferrari, Silvio

Table of Contents: “…/ Rafael Palomino Lozano -- Comparing law's social role in American and Western-European constitutional conflicts over abortion / Ofrit Liviatan -- Secular human rights, and religious pluralism : the British debate / Zachary R. …”
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Culture wars : an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices /

Table of Contents: “…. -- School of the Americas -- School Prayer -- School Shootings -- School Vouchers -- Schwarzenegger, Arnold -- Science Wars -- Secular Humanism -- Seeger, Pete -- September 11 -- September 11 Memorial -- Serrano, Andres -- Sex Education -- Sex Offenders -- Sexual Assault -- Sexual Harassment -- Sexual Revolution -- Sharpton, Al -- Sheen, Fulton J. -- Shelley, Martha -- Shepard, Matthew -- Shock Jocks -- Sider, Ron -- Silent Majority -- Simpsons, The -- Smoking in Public -- Socarides, Charles -- Social Security -- Sodomy Laws -- Sokal Affair -- Soros, George -- Southern Baptist Convention -- Soviet Union and Russia -- Sowell, Thomas -- Speech Codes -- Spock, Benjamin -- Springsteen, Bruce -- Starr, Kenneth -- Stay-at-Home Mothers -- Steinbeck, John -- Steinem, Gloria -- Stem-Cell Research -- Stern, Howard -- Stewart, Jon -- Stone, Oliver -- Stonewall Rebellion -- Strategic Defense Initiative -- Strauss, Leo -- Structuralism and Post-Structuralism -- Student Conservatives -- Students for a Democratic Society -- Summers, Lawrence -- Supply-Side Economics -- Symbionese Liberation Army -- Taft, Robert A. -- Talk Radio -- Tax Reform -- Televangelism -- Teller, Edward -- Ten Commandments -- Terkel, Studs -- Thanksgiving Day -- Think Tanks -- Third Parties -- Thomas, Clarence -- Thompson, Hunter S. -- Three Mile Island Accident -- Thurmond, Strom -- Till, Emmett -- Tobacco Settlements -- Tort Reform -- Transgender Movement -- Truman, Harry S. -- Turner, Ted -- Twenty-Second Amendment -- Unabomber -- United Nations -- USA PATRIOT Act -- Ventura, Jesse -- Victimhood -- Vidal, Gore -- Vietnam Veterans Against the War -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Vietnam War -- Vigilantism -- Voegelin, Eric -- Voting Rights Act -- Waco Siege -- Wall Street Journal, The -- Wallace, George -- Wallis, Jim -- Wal-Mart -- Walt Disney Company -- War on Drugs -- War on Poverty -- War Powers Act -- War Protesters -- War Toys -- Warhol, Andy -- Warren, Earl -- Warren, Rick -- Washington Times, The -- Watergate -- Watt, James -- Watts and Los Angeles Riots, 1965 and 1992 -- Wayne, John -- Wealth Gap -- Weekly Standard, The -- Welfare Reform -- Wellstone, Paul -- West, Cornel -- Weyrich, Paul M. -- Whistleblowers -- White, Reggie -- White Supremacists -- Wildmon, Donald -- Will, George -- Williams, William Appleman -- Wilson, Edmund -- Winfrey, Oprah -- Wolf, Naomi -- Wolfe, Tom -- Women in the Military -- Women's Studies -- Woodward, Bob -- World -- World Council of Churches -- World War II Memorial -- Wounded Knee Incident -- Young, Neil -- Zappa, Frank -- Zero Tolerance -- Zinn, Howard.…”
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New dictionary of the history of ideas /

Table of Contents: “…Game Theory -- Garden -- Gay Studies -- Gender -- Gender: Overview -- Gender in the Middle East -- Gender in Art -- Gender Studies: Anthropology -- General Will -- Generation -- Genetics -- Genetics: History of -- Genetics: Contemporary -- Genius -- Genocide -- Genre -- Geography -- Geometry -- Gesture -- Ghetto -- Gift, The -- Globalization -- Globalization: Africa -- Globalization: Asia -- Globalization: General -- Gnosticism -- Good -- Greek Science -- Happiness and Pleasure in European Thought -- Harmony -- Hate -- Health and Disease -- Heaven and Hell -- Heaven and Hell (Asian Focus) -- Hedonism in European Thought -- Hegelianism -- Hegemony -- Heresy and Apostasy -- Hermeneutics -- Hierarchy and Order -- Hinduism -- Historical and Dialectical Materialism -- Historicism -- History, Economic -- History, Idea of -- Honor -- Honor, Middle Eastern Notions of -- Human Capital -- Human Rights -- Human Rights: Overview -- Human Rights: Women's Rights -- Humanism -- Humanism: Africa -- Humanism: Chinese Conception of -- Humanism: Europe and the Middle East -- Humanism: Renaissance -- Secular Humanism in the United States -- Humanity -- Humanity: African Thought -- Humanity: Asian Thought -- Humanity: European Thought -- Humanity in the Arts -- Humor -- Hygiene -- Iconography -- Idealism -- Ideas, History of -- Identity -- Identity of Persons -- Personal and Social Identity -- Identity, Multiple -- Identity, Multiple: Overview -- Identity, Multiple: Asian-Americans -- Jewish Multiple Identity -- Images, Icons, and Idols -- Imagination -- Immortality and the Afterlife -- Impressionism -- Indigenismo -- Individualism -- Intelligentsia -- Intentionality -- Intercession in Middle Eastern Society -- Interdisciplinarity -- Internal Colonialism -- International Order -- Interpretation -- Islam -- Islam: Africa -- Islam: Shii -- Islam: Southeast Asia -- Islam: Sunni -- Islamic Science -- Jainism -- Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Thought -- Jihad -- Jouissance -- Judaism -- Judaism to 1800 -- Modern Judaism -- Justice -- Justice: Overview -- Justice in American Thought -- Justice in East Asian Thought -- Kantianism -- Kinship -- Knowledge -- Landscape in the Arts -- Language and Linguistics -- Language, Linguistics, and Literacy -- Language, Philosophy of -- Language, Philosophy of: Ancient and Medieval -- Language, Philosophy of: Modern -- Law -- Law, Islamic -- Leadership -- Learning and Memory, Contemporary Views -- Legalism, Ancient China -- Liberalism -- Liberation Theology -- Liberty -- Life -- Life Cycle -- Life Cycle: Overview -- Life Cycle: Adolescence -- Life Cycle: Elders/Old Age -- Linguistic Turn -- Literary Criticism -- Literary History -- Literature -- Literature: Overview -- African Literature -- Logic -- Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, Modern -- Love, Western Notions of -- Loyalties, Dual -- Lysenkoism.…”
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NGOs and Human Rights Comparing Faith-Based and Secular Approaches. by BUTCHER, CHARITY. HALLWARD, MAIA CARTER

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