Secularization and the World Religions
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 15 April 2010
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781846311871
Copyright date: 2009
Description: This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with the major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social, and political order, as well as offering an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas, Secularization and the World Religions analyzes the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion-as well as the role of the natural sciences in a global perspective. Contributors include such internationally renowned scholars as Winfried Brugger, Jose Casanova, Hans Joas, and Hans Kippenberg. (Barnes & Noble)