How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

";Berlinerblau mounts a careful, judicious, and compelling argument that America needs more secularists€”not only among nonbelievers but among believers as well. It will change the way we think and talk about religious freedom."; €”Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America Weary of religious conservatives urging ";defense of marriage"; and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image? Americans are stuck in an all-or-nothing landscape for religion in public life. What are reasonable citizens to do? Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In How to Be Secular, Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the

JACQUES BERLINERBLAU, professor at Georgetown University and director of the Program for Jewish Civilization, is the author of four books. He has appeared on radio, television, and print, including NPR, CNN, Al-Jazeera, The Economist, The Jerusalem Post, U.S. News and World Report and the Washington Post. He is the host of the webcast "Faith Complex," which appears on The Huffington Post and elsewhere.