Secularisations and Their Debates

This volume explores timely topics in contemporary political and social debates. It addresses questions raised by the recent, much-touted return to religion, including possible reasons for the return and its practical, political, and intellectual prospects.

Leading Australasian philosophers of religion take up and advance the current debates about secularisation and religion Explores extremely timely topics in contemporary political and social debates: the new atheisms, political theology, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions Particular focus on radical criticisms of modern secular liberal societies in the thought of Charles Taylor and the Radical Orthodoxy school of theology

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1. Introduction: Secularization and its Discontents.- M. Sharpe, D. Nickelson.- 2. Disenchantments of secularism: the West and India, P. Bilimoria.- 3. Locke, secularism and the justice of the secular solution: towards a self-reflective transcending of secular-self understanding, P.A. Quadrio.- 4. Marx and the Christian logic of the secular state, R. Boer.- 5. Spirit matters: Life after secularism and religion? J. Rossouw.- 6. Counter-secularism: parsing the theological cure for our modern malady, D. Nickelson.- 7. 'In the Beginning Was ... the Story'? On Secularisation, Narrative, and Nominalisms, M. Sharpe.- 8. Enjoy your Enlightenment! New Atheism, fanaticism and the joys of other people's illusions, B. Cooke.- 9. Against fundamentalism: The silence of the Divine in the work of Karen Armstrong, P. Brown.- 10. Secularism stuck in the End-Times: From Alexandre Kojève to the recent Messianic Turn, R. Jeffs.- 11. Charles Taylor's search for transcendence: mystery, suffering, violence, J. Rundell.- 12. Towards post-secular Enlightenment, W. Hudson.