Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age -- Part I: Histories &amp -- Theories of the (Post)Secular -- The Fall of the Sparrow: On Axial Religion and Secularization as the Goal of History -- Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Secularism and its Contemporary Post-Secular Implications -- Secularism as a Positive Position -- Religion and Post-Secularity: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere -- Religious Education in Habermasian Post-Secular Societies -- We (In India) Have Always Been Post-Secular -- The Troubles of An Unrepentant Secularist -- Atheists in Foxholes -- Part II: Case Studies: Global Secularisms. A The Political Sphere -- Secularism and 'Gazetted' Holidays in India -- Muslim Secularisms in the European Context -- Education and Religious Minorities in Turkey: the Story behind the Introduction of Compulsory Religion Courses -- The Historical Relationship between Religion and Government in Rwanda -- Secularism from Below: On the Bolivarian Revolution -- Post-secular Expertise and American Foreign Policy -- Part II: Case Studies: Global Secularisms. B The Public Sphere -- When the Secular is Sacred: The Memorial Hall to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre and the Gettysburg National Military Park as Pilgrimage Sites -- Porous Persons: The Politics of a Nonreligious Japanese NGO -- Circulations of the Sacred: Contemporary Art as "Cultural" Catholicism in 21st Century Paris -- "A Deeply Held Religious Faith, and I Don't Care What It Is:" American Anti-Atheism as Nativism -- The Myth of Secularism in America -- Index.

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