Beyond church and state: democracy, secularism, and conversion
"Secularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as 'a wall of separation between Church and State'. This book moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that reshapes both religion and politics. Borrowing a term from religious traditions, the...
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2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Series/Journal: | Religion, politics, and democracy
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Beyond the Separation of Church and State; The Problem of Modern Secularism; The Figure of Conversion; The Structure of the Book; 1 Authorized Narrative and Crystalline Structure; Conversion, Narrative, and Secularism: A Secular Age as Conversion Narrative; The Smooth Surface and Authorized Narrative of Augustines Conversion; The Rough Texture and Crystalline Structure of Augustines Conversion; The Authorized Narrative and Crystalline Structure of Modern Secularism; 2 Toleration and Conversion in Lockes Letters |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a A Process of Crystalline Conversion in Lockes Letter Concerning TolerationConclusion; 3 The Crystalline Structure of Conversion; Bergson and "Bergsonism"; Crystalline Structures; Two Sources - No One Source: Bergsons Crystalline Conversion; Conclusions: "A Machine for the Making of Gods"; 4 Saint John (Rawls); Miracles Wrought by Gods Hand and by the Touch of a Saint; The Fascination of Saints; The Meaning of Suffering, Sin, and Sainthood; 5 The Wish for a Better Life; Reading, Writing, and Argument: A First Approach at Conversion |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Cavell on Rawls and A Theory of Justice - a First Look at the Social ContractCavell on Lockes Second Treatise - a Conversion of the Social Contract; Conclusion From Supernovas into The Deep; Secularisms Authorized and Crystalline Forms; Secularisms Possible Futures: Authorized and Crystalline Forms; The Conversion of Secularism; Index |
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