Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration

Vyacheslav Karpov is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University, USA. Manfred Svensson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Chile.

“The cast of authors gathered in this book is extremely impressive, and the quality of nearly every chapter is outstanding. … the wide variation in topics also makes it such a rich, comparative read. … This book proves that we deeply need such juxtapositions. It succeeds, in a way, not only with its title, but also with its subtitle, which makes the point that cross-disciplinary approaches to myth busting are not just serious but essential.” (Robert J. Joustra, IJRF, International Journal for Religious Freedom, Vol. 15 (1-2), 2022)

• 1. Vyacheslav Karpov and Manfred Svensson. “Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Towards an Agency-Focused Reassessment.- 2. Manfred Svensson. A Dirty Word? The Christian Development of the Traditional Conception of Toleration in Augustine, Aquinas, and John Owen.- 3. Stephen Hirtenstein. “Human Dignity and Divine Chivalry: Rights, Respect and Toleration According to Ibn ‘Arabi.- 4. Andrew Murphy. Politics,’ ‘Religion,’ and the Theory and Practice of Toleration: The Case of William Penn.- 5. Holger Zaborowski. “Religious Freedom and Toleration in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem.- 6. George Harinck. “Abraham Kuyper’s Vision of a Plural Society as a Christian Answer to Secularization and Intolerance.- 7. Steven D. Smith. “The Resurgence of (Immanent) Religion and the Disintegration of the Secularization Hypothesis.- 8. Eduardo Fuentes, To Kill a Calf is Not to Kill a Calf: On the Description of Religious Objections and Toleration.- 9. Jean Meyer, The Conflict between State and Church in Mexico (1925-1938) and La Cristiada (1926-1929).- 10. Carol Troen and Ilan Troen. Theological and Secular Discourses in Validating a Jewish State.- 11. Daniel Philpott. Religious Liberty and the Muslim Question.- 12. Barbara McGraw and James T. Richardson. “Tolerance and Intolerance in the History of Religious Liberty Jurisprudence in the United States and the Implementation of RFRA and RLUIPA.- 13. Fenggang Yang. “Secularization Regimes and Religious Toleration: China’s Multiple Experiments.- 14. Effie Fokas. Messages from the European Court of Human Rights on Religion, Secularism, Tolerance and Pluralism.- 15. Vyacheslav Karpov. Secularization and Persecution: Lessons from Russia, Ukraine, and Beyond.