"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a gui

What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what exten

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

What do we talk about when we talk about "religion"? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence u

This collection of essays examines how ''the secular'' is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic persp