Humanist & Secular Alternatives to Religion

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Chur...

The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolut...

In this study of new atheism and religious fundamentalism, this book advances two provocative - and surprising - arguments. Liam Jerrold Fraser arg...

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of womens rights. ...

A much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world. In the 1960s, two great social and cultural ch...

The rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women reali...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Meditations, by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is one of the definitive texts on Stoicism.In Meditations Taken ...

Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. Modern Britain emerged from the outcome o...

How did imperialist elites build their power? The Struggle for Development and Democracy begins to answer this pressing question. In this rousing s...

Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; m...