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How Hot is Heaven? What is it to be Human? These and other questions are pondered in An Irrational Normality. An unusual creative non-fiction memoir not only because it makes living an everyday life in a schizophrenic world a compelling read, but ultimately answers, Who is responsible for What and...

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this hegemony, and others are simply...

Entre 1616 et 1641, Clément de La Roque Bouillac, seigneur de Saint-Géry, baron de Loupiac, en pleine guerres de religion et alors que le pouvoir royal cherche à se raffermir, est chargé d’approcher les chefs huguenots pour le compte du roi de France. Ce seigneur provincial, peu au fait...

Prieuré de Sion, Illuminaten, Freimaurer, Loge P2, Opus Dei, Skull and Bones und viele andere - gerade in jüngster Zeit wollen die Gerüchte um die Macht der Geheimgesellschaften nicht mehr verstummen. Diese Macht ist Realität. Doch vieles ist Mythos. Noch mehr bleibt hinter der Wirklichkeit zurück. Der renommierte Journalist Klaus-Rüdiger Mai präsentiert hier die Fakten.

This three-volume reference provides a complete guide for readers investigating the crucial interplay between war and religion from ancient times until today, enabling a deeper understanding of the role of religious wars across cultures. • Enables readers to explore the ongoing and important...

This bookbrings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes “humanism” from the “non-humanist?”  Readers will encounter a wide-range...

I am very disappointed about the Bible depicting me as a publicity hound and showoff. I also have some things to say to all the people that made me look like an idiot God. The hundreds of the writers who wrote the books of the Bible were liars writing tall tales of a man they never met. Death and...

What does it mean for a society to be secular? Answering this question from a philosophical angle, Radical Secularization? delves into the philosophical presuppositions of secularization. Which cultural evolutions made secularization possible? International scholars from different disciplines assess...

This book examines the importance of the Enlightenment for understanding the secular outlook of contemporary Western societies. It shows the new ways of thinking about religion that emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries and have had a great impact on how we address problems related to religion...

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century’s first such political movement in the Middle East. It represented a landmark in Iranian history because of the unlikely support it received from Shi‘ite clerics who historically viewed Western concepts with suspicion, some claiming...

Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory, the inviolability of the nation’s borders, and the right of that nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability. From the Middle Ages until well into the Modern Period, however, another concept of sovereignty held sway: responsibility...

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” As the book shows, both clauses were intended to protect the free exercise of religion...

This bi-dimensional book, rhetorically questions and praises the enigmatic and ambivalent President of the United States of America, regarding the SHITHOLE issue. For him, Trumps election was predictable given his narrative identity, and the negative emotions thrown at him by his haters. The story...

Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents...