The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a -secular outlook- on life and politics.
Shows how secularism can answer the problem of religious terrorism
Provides new perspectives on how religious minorities can be integrated into liberal democracies
Reveals how secularism has gained a new political and moral significance.
Also examines such topics as atheism, religious criticism and free speech
The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious te...
In contemporary politics two conflicting trends have influenced freedom of expression. The first confirms that many Western countries have become less strict about sacrilegious expression and repealed their blasphemy laws or withdrew much of their punishment for blasphemy. Yet the second trend manifests in an opposing movement, often couched in terms of religious freedom, which attempts to reconcile free speech with freedom of religion by punishing expressions deemed, for instance, "hate speech." With contributions by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this book offers an examination...
In contemporary politics two conflicting trends have influenced freedom of expression. The first confirms that many Western countries have become less...
