How to Be Secular
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How to Be Secular

A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

How to Be Secular

A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

About this book

Why secularism isn't the same thing as atheism—and why it's crucial for preserving liberty and democracy for all Americans, regardless of their beliefs. Founding father Thomas Jefferson believed that "religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, " but these days many people seem to have forgotten this ideal. Conservatives claim America is a "Christian nation" and urge that laws be structured around religious convictions. Hardcore atheists, meanwhile, seek to undermine and attack religion at all levels. Surely there must be a middle ground. In How to Be Secular, Jacques Berlinerblau issues a call to the moderates—those who are tired of the belligerence on the fringes—that we return to America's long tradition of secularism, which seeks to protect both freedom from and for religion. He looks at the roots of secularism and examines how it should be bolstered and strengthened so that Americans of all stripes can live together peacefully. "Jacques Berlinerblau mounts a careful, judicious, and compelling argument that America needs more secularists.... The author's argument merits a wide hearing and 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

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: Is Secularism Dead?
  8. WHAT SECULARISM IS AND ISN’T
  9. What Is Secularism? (The Basic Package)
  10. Were the Founders Secular?
  11. Does Secularism Equal Total Separation of Church and State?
  12. Does Secularism Equal Atheism?
  13. How Not to Be Secular
  14. THE VERY PECULIAR ā€œRISEā€ AND FALL OF AMERICAN SECULARISM
  15. The ā€œRiseā€ of American Secularism and the Secularish
  16. The Fall of American Secularism
  17. Are Democrats Secularists?
  18. The Christian Nation and the GOP
  19. REVIVING AMERICAN SECULARISM
  20. Who Could Be a Secularist?
  21. How to Be Secularish (In Praise of ā€œSecular Jewsā€ and ā€œCafeteria Catholicsā€)
  22. Tough Love for American Secularism
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Index
  26. About the Author
  27. Connect with HMH