How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom - Couverture rigide

Berlinerblau, Jacques

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0547473346 ISBN 13 : 9780547473345

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Synopsis

“Berlinerblau mounts a careful, judicious, and compelling argument that America needs more secularists—not only among nonbelievers but among believers as well. It will change the way we think and talk about religious freedom.”
—Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America

Weary of religious conservatives urging “defense of marriage” and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image? Americans are stuck in an all-or-nothing landscape for religion in public life. What are reasonable citizens to do?

Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In How to Be Secular, Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other.

Berlinerblau passionately defends the virtues of secularism, reminds us what it is and what it can protect, and urges us to mobilize around its cause, which is for all Americans to continue to enjoy freedom for—and from—religion. This is an urgent wake-up call for progressives in and out of all faiths.

www.jacquesberlinerblau.com

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

“Berlinerblau mounts a careful, judicious, and compelling argument that America needs more secularists—not only among nonbelievers but among believers as well. It will change the way we think and talk about religious freedom.”
—Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America

Weary of religious conservatives urging “defense of marriage” and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image? Americans are stuck in an all-or-nothing landscape for religion in public life. What are reasonable citizens to do?

Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In How to Be Secular, Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other.

Berlinerblau passionately defends the virtues of secularism, reminds us what it is and what it can protect, and urges us to mobilize around its cause, which is for all Americans to continue to enjoy freedom for—and from—religion. This is an urgent wake-up call for progressives in and out of all faiths.

www.jacquesberlinerblau.com

Revue de presse

Praise for Thumpin' It: "Berlinerblau's sangfroid about Bible-thumpin' pols [is] a welcome antidote to the army of alarmist authors who've been predicting the establishment of the United States of Pat Robertson any day now." --Boston Globe

"This is a very smart, funny, and insightful account of the way in which the Bible and its authority are often invoked in American politics. Evangelicals should read his book for a reality-check from a keen observer whose assumptions about many matters (Scripture included) may differ from their own." --Books & Culture

Praise for The Secular Bible:" Berlinerblau's book raises questions in a clever, intriguing way that will stimulate serious thought and discussion long after it is put down." --Ziony Zevit, author of The Religions of Ancient Israel

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0547473346
• ISBN 13: 9780547473345
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible