num_pages: 336
description: Berlinerblau mounts a careful judicious and compelling argument that America needs more secularistsnot 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 AmericaWeary 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 Americas 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 forand fromreligion. This is an urgent wake-up call for progressives in and out of all faiths.www.jacquesberlinerblau.com
language: English
title: How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt