Abraham and the Secular

Simone Raudino is Visiting Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine and Co-Founder of the interfaith organization, Bridging Gaps, Hong Kong. He is the co-editor of Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics (forthcoming).Uzma Ashraf Barton is Co-founder of the interfaith organization, Bridging Gaps, Hong Kong. She is the author of Rethinking Regulation of International Finance: Law, Policy and Institutions (2016).

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Christianity and the Secular in Western History: How the Secular Became Secularised.- Chapter 3: Islam and the Secular.- Chapter 4: Judaism and the World: A Kaleidoscope of Responses.- Chapter 5: The Bahá’í Faith: Interface between the Secular and Religious.- Chapter 6: Faiths in Collision: Contemporary Western Political Divisions in light of the Islamist Revolutions.- Chapter 7: Religious Tradition and Secular Order: Catholic Globalism as Cooperation and Resistance.- Chapter 8: Fear of Secularism:  Islamist Narratives on a Doctrinal Threat.- Chapter 9: Secular Identities: An Exploration of Secular Models in Islam.- Chapter 10: Secularism, Islam and Legal Pluralism in Europe: A Case Study on the Use of Headscarf in the UK and France.- Chapter 11: Meaningful Interpersonal Contact: Interreligious Dialogue as a Response to the Cognitive and Social Dynamics of Bias. Chapter 12: Abrahamic Values in Inter-cultural Contexts: Tackling Islamophobia in Secular Societies.