The Myth of Secularism in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface and Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents ix
4. Introduction: Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age 1
5. Part I: Histories & Theories of the (Post)Secular
6. The Fall of the Sparrow: On Axial Religion and Secularization as the Goal of History 27
7. Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Secularism and its Contemporary Post-Secular Implications 43
8. Secularism as a Positive Position 65
9. Religion and Post-Secularity: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere 71
10. Religious Education in Habermasian Post-Secular Societies 91
11. We (In India) Have Always Been Post-Secular 109
12. The Troubles of An Unrepentant Secularist 137
13. Atheists in Foxholes 145
14. Part II: Case Studies: Global Secularisms. A The Political Sphere
15. Secularism and ‘Gazetted’ Holidays in India 155
16. Muslim Secularisms in the European Context 171
17. Education and Religious Minorities in Turkey: the Story behind the Introduction of Compulsory Religion Courses 189
18. The Historical Relationship between Religion and Government in Rwanda 205
19. Secularism from Below: On the Bolivarian Revolution 223
20. Post-secular Expertise and American Foreign Policy 235
21. Part II: Case Studies: Global Secularisms. B The Public Sphere
22. When the Secular is Sacred: The Memorial Hall to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre and the Gettysburg National Military Park as Pilgrimage Sites 261
23. Porous Persons: The Politics of a Nonreligious Japanese NGO 271
24. Circulations of the Sacred: Contemporary Art as “Cultural” Catholicism in 21st Century Paris 287
25. “A Deeply Held Religious Faith, and I Don’t Care What It Is:” American Anti-Atheism as Nativism 295
26. The Myth of Secularism in America 311
27. Index 335