Ericson, Edward L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel EricsonSummary: Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion - but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic to some of its aims. We may enjoy religious art and architecture, music and community, and even some of the rituals - while being unable to believe in divine commandments or the existence of a higher being. This book is about those feelings and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The School of Life Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.6 REPCopson, Andrew
Summary: Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. Not religion, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 COPBrown, Frederick
Contents: From the life of Jesus to the Sacr-̌Coeur -- Birth pangs of a secular republic -- The crash of the union gňřale -- France on horse -- The ogre of modernity : Eiffel's tower -- The Panama scandal -- The Dreyfus affair -- The burning of the charity bazaar -- Two banquets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.081 BROBerlinerblau, Jacques.
Summary: Argues that a return to a more secular America will promote religious diversity and freedom, and help eliminate the widening divide between religious conservatives and staunch atheists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.6 BERShapiro, Ben
Summary: Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world. We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SHADalai Lama XIV
Summary: A follow-up to the best-selling "Ethics for a new millennium" outlines a system of secular ethics that both transcends religion and incorporates religious tolerance for the overall improvement of human life on individual, community and global levels, offering an accompanying guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.44 DALHirsi Ali, Ayaan
Summary: "Ayaan Ali Hirsi makes a powerful case that a religious Reformation is the only way to end the terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities that each year claim thousands of lives throughout the Muslim world"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 297.2 HIRPearcey, Nancy.
Summary: Argues that the modern secularism of art has fragmented society and compromised the concepts of liberty and dignity, and makes a case for biblical Christianity as the more holistic and humane cultural alternative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.6 PEATaylor, Charles
Summary: Presents an analysis of secularism in the modern age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007