The Oxford Handbook of Secularism

Phil Zuckerman is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Program in Secular Studies at Pitzer College. He is co-author (with Frank Pasquale and Luke Galen) of The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies (OUP 2016) and author of Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion (OUP 2011).John R. Shook is Director of Education and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry and Visiting Assistant Professor of Science Education and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo.

• Contributors Introduction: The Study of SecularismPhil Zuckerman and John R. Shook Part One: Identifying the Secular, Secularity, Secularization, and Secularism 1. Identifying (with) the SecularJohannes Quack2. Religious/Non-Religious Demography and Religion v. Science: A Global PerspectiveAriela Keysar3. Secularization and its ConsequencesSteve Bruce4. The Imagined War between Secularism and ReligionMark Juergensmeyer5. Political SecularismJacques Berlinerblau6. Political Secularism and Democracy in Theory and Practice Jonathan Fox Part Two: Secular Governments7. Anglo-American Secular Government John Perry 8. Secularism in FranceAmélie Barras9. Secularism in TurkeyKenan Sevinc, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Thomas Coleman10. Secularization in IsraelGuy Ben-Porat11. Secularism, State Neutrality, and IslamAbdullah Saeed12. Secular Government in sub-Saharan AfricaBaffour K. Takyi13. Secularism in IndiaVidhu Verma14. Soviet Atheism and its AftermathSonja Luehrmann15. Sacred, Secular, and Neo-sacred Governments in China and TaiwanCheng-tian Kuo Part Three: Contesting Political Secularism16. Religion in the Public SphereCristina Lafont17. The Liberal Betrayal of SecularismShadia B. Drury18. Religious Freedom in a Secular SocietyRoger Trigg 19. Communicative Reason and Religious Faith in Secular and Post-Secular ContextsJacob Goodson20. Secularisms or Liberal-Democratic ConstitutionalismVeit Bader 21. Multiculturalizing Secularism Tariq Modood22. Secularisms or Critique of Religio-SecularismYolande Jansen Part Four: Politics of Church and State23. A Secular Critique of Religious Ethics and PoliticsPaul Cliteur24. Secular Education and ReligionJames Arthur25. Secularism, Feminism and the Public Sphere Niamh Reilly26. Secularism, Race, and Political Affiliation in AmericaJuhem Navarro-Rivera and Yazmín García Trejo27. Black InfidelsSikivu Hutchinson28. Secularism and U.S. Religion JurisprudenceCaroline Corbin29. Separating Church and State in AmericaDavid Niose Part Five: Secularity and Society30. Varieties of Secular ExperienceDavid Eller31. Secular LivingJesse Smith32. Secular Prosociality and Well-beingLuke Galen33. Secularism and the Science of Well-beingDavid Yaden, Jonathan Iwry, Emily Esfahani Smith, James Pawelski34. Secular SpiritualityRobert C. Fuller35. Nonreligious People in Religious SocietiesWill Gervais and Maxine Najle36. The Challenge of Leaving Religion and Becoming SecularMarlene Winell Part Six: Morality and Secular Ethics37. Agency and Responsibility in a Natural WorldErik Wielenberg38. The Evolution of Sociality, Helping and MoralityDennis Krebs and Kaleda Denton39. Ethics, Secular and ReligiousJohn Teehan40. Secular Ethics, East and West Sor-hoon Tan41. Secularism, Humanism, and Secular HumanismJoseph Blankholm42. Humanism as a Positive Outcome of SecularismJoachim Duyndam43. Secularization, Bio-medical Technology and Life ExtensionBrian S. Turner Index

Throughout the text, the myriad contributors offer observations and analysis on the ethics, effects, and challenges of secularism. These threads weave throughout the extensive and diverse range of topics, pulling them together into a surprisingly cohesive set of commentaries. The result is not a book without fault, but one whose collective merits far outweigh any particular gripes. The final point in favor of the text is its forty-three page index. Exhaustive and well-organized, it provides the necessary mechanism for navigating a handbook of this size and scope. This text is an essential reference book