This book brings together a group of experts from Europe, USA and Australasia who, from their respective fields, whether historical, legal or sociological, have investigated the most controversial aspects of the traditional relations between so-called 'secularism' and the religious confessions.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Jaime Contreras y Rosa María Martínez de Codes, On Secularisms and Religions
- Part I: Religion and Secularist Principles
- David Little, The Global Challenge of Secularism to Religious Freedom
- T. Jeremy Gunn, Secularism, the Secular, and Secularization
- Rex Tauati Ahdar, Why Secularism Is Not Neutral
- J. Paul Martin, Re-Thinking Secularism: A Paradigm Based on Non-Discrimination
- Nicholas P. Miller, Competing Secularisms and the Place of Religious Freedom
- Rosa María Martínez de Codes, Legal Dimensions of Secularism: Conflicts of Law and Conscience in the Field of Education in Europe
- Part II: Trends of Secularism and Diversity
- Jaime Contreras, Secularism Trends and the Arab World
- Zoila Combalía, Secularisation, Human Rights, and Women in Islamic Societies
- Philippe Portier, Civil Religion in France: Returning to a Metamorphosis
- Blandine Chelini-Pont, Legal Secularism in France Today: Between Two Paths
- Jean-Pierre Bastian, Protestantism in the Latin World: Religion and Secularism
- List of Authors