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What is secularism, and why does it matter? In an era marked by global religious revival, how do countries navigate the presence of faith in the public square? In this dynamic collection of essays, leading scholars from around the world, including Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua and French female rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, examine the condition of church-state relations in three pivotal countries: the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and law. Prominent among the points addressed are the crippling nomenclatural confusions that have so hampered not only secularism as a political ideology, but secularism as an academic construct. This reader-friendly volume also offers a critical and nuanced look at how women are impacted by secular governance. Though secularism is often equated with modernity and progress, including with regard to gender equality, our contributors find that the truth is infinitely more complicated.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Secularism on the Edge
• Author: J. Berlinerblau, S. Fainberg, A. Nou
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 299
• EAN: 9781137381156
• ISBN: 1137381159
• ID: 04771594
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 502 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 137 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. August 2014

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