" Smith provides the reader with a powerful new framework for assessing the secularization
of American public life, including a wealth of new insights and historical evidence on religion …

This is both an excellent and a weak book. The nine chapters of substance provide detailed,
sociologically informed, historical accounts of early 20thcentury struggles between religious …

A thought-provoking reflection on why secular national liberation movements are so often
challenged by militant religious revivals Many of the successful campaigns for national …

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In a phrase that ironically mimes the millennial expectations of fundamentalism, Christopher
Hitchens asked in his book God Is Not Great,“Could there be a change in the Zeitgeist …

Looking back over the century just ended, it is not easy to assess the status and prospects of
secularism and the secular ideal in the United States. As is so often the case in American …

The United States is a deeply Christian country, but over the last sixty years American public
culture has become increasingly detached from religious concerns. Christian activists, when …

HE success of globalization and the Western, secular free-market system have been brought
sharply into focus since the events of 11 September. In recent decades, a coalition of …

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Abstract Secularism in the United States finds its most heightened expression in its
constitutional arrangements; in this respect Britain falls short but by its own secularist …