Forces of secularity in the modern world; Vol. 1. Washington College studies in religion, politics, and culture ; vol. 11.

Language: English

Published by New York ; Bern ; Berlin ; Vienna : Peter Lang, 2018

1433143585 / 9781433143588

Series: Book 9 of 11 - Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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278 S. Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - 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 globethe process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of early capitalism and how it saw the real world functioning well-enough on its own principles of individual struggle and self-interest, without needing religious or moral principles to meddle in its affairs and eventually dispelling the need for any intelligent design or providential orchestration of life through the work of Darwin. The book then discusses the growth of the secular point of view: how historians dismissed the impact of religion in developing modern culture, how scientists conceived of the universe running on self-sufficient or mechanistic principles, and how people no longer looked to the providential hand of God to explain their suffering. The book ends with a discussion of how the Deist concept of human autonomy became a political policy in America through Jeffersons concept of a wall of separation between church and state and how the US Supreme Court proceeded to dismiss the importance of religion in shaping or justifying the values of the nation and its laws. The book is accessible to most upper-level and graduate students in a wide-variety of disciplines, keeping technical and foreign words to a minimum and leaving scholarly details or debates to its extensive notes. - Contents: The Spiritual Crisis of Early Capitalism -- The Rise of Acquisitive Capitalism in France -- 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 Religion in American Society as a Private Matter -- Mr. Jefferson -- The Development of the Wall. ISBN 9781433143588 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 507.

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Forces of secularity in the modern world; Vol. 1. Washington College studies in religion, politics, and culture ; vol. 11.
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Strehle, Stephen:
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New York ; Bern ; Berlin ; Vienna : Peter Lang
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2018
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English
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9781433143588
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Book 9 of 11: Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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