New Books in Secularism
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Ana Honnacker, "Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: A...
An interview with Ana Honnacker
56 min
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Michelle Chaplin Sanchez, "Calvin and the Resig...
An interview with Michelle Chaplin Sanchez
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Corey Anton, "How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Po...
An interview with Corey Anton
56 min
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Melvin Konner, "Believers: Faith in Human Natur...
An interview with Melvin Konner
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Joseph P. Laycock, "Speak of the Devil: How the...
An interview with Joseph P. Laycock
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Phil Zuckerman, "Society Without God: What the ...
An interview with Phil Zuckerman
52 min
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Peter E. Gordon, "Migrants in the Profane: Crit...
An interview with Peter E. Gordon
85 min
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J. A. Gosetti-Ferencei, "On Being and Becoming:...
An interview with Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
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Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, "Ars Vitae: The Fate of ...
An interview with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
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Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Relig...
Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...
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Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Co...
Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...
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David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
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Danielle Haque, “Interrogating Secularism: Race...
Haque deconstructs liberal accounts of secularism through an examination of the work of authors and artists from ethnic and religious minorities...
56 min
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Philip Jenkins, "Fertility and Faith: The Demog...
Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world’s religions...
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David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Ge...
Evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning...
42 min
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T. Campolo and B. Campolo, "Why I Left, Why I S...
Over a Thanksgiving dinner, fifty-year-old Bart Campolo announced to his famous Evangelical pastor father, Tony Campolo, that after a lifetime immersed in the Christian faith, he no longer believed in God....
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Schneur Zalman Newfield, "Degrees of Separation...
Newfield presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview...
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Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History ...
Ryrie offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism...
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Nathan G. Alexander, "Race in a Godless World: ...
Is modern racism a product of secularization and the decline of Christian universalism?
40 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, "None...
In recent decades, the number of Americans and Canadians who identify has nonreligious has risen considerably..
59 min
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John D. Caputo, "Hoping Against Hope" (Fortress...
Caputo’s conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself:...
73 min
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Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...
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Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in ...
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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