Forces of secularity in the modern world / / Stephen Strehle.

Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe-the process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of earl...

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Superior document:Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture ; volume 11-
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Peter Lang Publishing,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Washington College studies in religion, politics, and culture ; Volume 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • The spiritual crisis of early capitalism
  • The rise of acquisitive capitalism
  • The development of acquisitive capitalism and social Darwinism in Britain
  • The removal of religion from human development and natural events
  • Enlightened history
  • The mechanistic universe
  • Innocent suffering
  • The marginalization of the church in American society as a private matter
  • Mr. Jefferson
  • The development of the wall.