The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis; the expansion of postmodern critiques of Enlightenment rationality to encompass questions of religion; and sustained critiques of the ‘secularizati...

Abstract The traditional claim in the literature on religion and science is that exposure to leads secularity because claims about natural world two systems are incompatible. More recently, research has narrowed this shown conflict over knowledge USA primarily limited one religion—conservative Protestantism—and only a few fact claims. In paper, I test using longitudinal data from matched survey...

Hans Blumenberg’s magisterial defense of modernity against the reproach of secularization, elaborated most extensively in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (1966, 1974), develops both a distinctive method of philosophical history and the groundwork of a philosophical anthropology, predicated on the emergence of human self-assertion as theoretical curiosity. But as Blumenberg’s work attests more ...

In this paper I consider how individuals allocate their time between church attendance (and other religious activities) and secular leisure activities. Moreover individuals use a cognitive style, which is either intuitive-believing or reflective-analytical. I assume that the full benefit from religious activities is achieved by intuitive believers. The model predicts that, ceteris paribus, weal...

Today people of all ages and from a wide divergence of religious and social backrounds form already a certain kind of new movement, a movement o f the dissatisfied who seek new ways of authentic life. In Europe, secularism still seems to be triumphant, even i f alternative movements—often associated with the peace issue and ecological responsibility—gain ground. This is diffierent in the United...