Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration

Vyacheslav Karpov is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University, USA. Manfred Svensson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Chile.

• 1. Vyacheslav Karpov and Manfred Svensson. “Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Towards an Agency-Focused Reassessment.- 2. Manfred Svensson. A Dirty Word? The Christian Development of the Traditional Conception of Toleration in Augustine, Aquinas, and John Owen.- 3. Stephen Hirtenstein. “Human Dignity and Divine Chivalry: Rights, Respect and Toleration According to Ibn ‘Arabi.- 4. Andrew Murphy. Politics,’ ‘Religion,’ and the Theory and Practice of Toleration: The Case of William Penn.- 5. Holger Zaborowski. “Religious Freedom and Toleration in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem.- 6. George Harinck. “Abraham Kuyper’s Vision of a Plural Society as a Christian Answer to Secularization and Intolerance.- 7. Steven D. Smith. “The Resurgence of (Immanent) Religion and the Disintegration of the Secularization Hypothesis.- 8. Eduardo Fuentes, To Kill a Calf is Not to Kill a Calf: On the Description of Religious Objections and Toleration.- 9. Jean Meyer, The Conflict between State and Church in Mexico (1925-1938) and La Cristiada (1926-1929).- 10. Carol Troen and Ilan Troen. Theological and Secular Discourses in Validating a Jewish State.- 11. Daniel Philpott. Religious Liberty and the Muslim Question.- 12. Barbara McGraw and James T. Richardson. “Tolerance and Intolerance in the History of Religious Liberty Jurisprudence in the United States and the Implementation of RFRA and RLUIPA.- 13. Fenggang Yang. “Secularization Regimes and Religious Toleration: China’s Multiple Experiments.- 14. Effie Fokas. Messages from the European Court of Human Rights on Religion, Secularism, Tolerance and Pluralism.- 15. Vyacheslav Karpov. Secularization and Persecution: Lessons from Russia, Ukraine, and Beyond.

“The cast of authors gathered in this book is extremely impressive, and the quality of nearly every chapter is outstanding. … the wide variation in topics also makes it such a rich, comparative read. … This book proves that we deeply need such juxtapositions. It succeeds, in a way, not only with its title, but also with its subtitle, which makes the point that cross-disciplinary approaches to myth busting are not just serious but essential.” (Robert J. Joustra, IJRF, International Journal for Religious Freedom, Vol. 15 (1-2), 2022)