Browsing Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society by Subject "Secularism"
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Beyond the politics of theological despair
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, 2006. )This paper critically explores the political theology of Carl Schmitt. It argues that Schmitt’s analysis, which links the transcendence of God with the political concept of sovereignty, is both too nostalgic and too ... -
Biblical studies as a secular discipline: the role of faith and theology
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 13, 2011. ) -
"Critical Islam" debating/negotiating modernity
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 14, 2012. )The intellectual discourse of Muslim elites born and educated in a Western environment gives impetus, sometimes not entirely consciously, to the debate on the critical potential of the public sphere. This new Islamic ... -
Cross-national correlations of quantifiable societal health with popular religiosity and secularism in the prosperous democracies: a first look
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 7, 2005. ) -
Religion, pluralism, and democracy: a natural law approach
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 10, 2008. )This article argues for a democratic theory rooted in natural law. Humanity’s earliest wave of democratization took place in the Axial Era and was intimately bound up with efforts on the part of ordinary people to ... -
Religiosity, secularism, and social health: a research note
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 8, 2006. )This article is a research note addressing various theoretical and methodological issues in the measurement and analysis of religiosity and secularism and their relationship to quantifiable measures of social health in ...