Includes bibliographical references and index.

Western secularity / Charles Taylor -- The secular, secularizations, secularisms / José Casanova -- Secularism, citizenship, and the public sphere / Craig Calhoun -- Rehabilitating secularism / Rajeev Bhargava -- The multiple secularisms of modern democratic and non-democratic regimes / Alfred Stepan -- Civilizational states, secularism, and religions / Peter J. Katzenstein -- A suspension of (dis)belief : the secular-religious binary and the study of international relations / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- Rethinking the secular and religious aspects of violence / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Religious humanitarianism and the global politics of secularism / Cecelia Lynch -- Rethinking fundamentalism in a secular age / R. Scott Appleby -- Secularism, religious change, and social conflict in Asia / Richard Madsen -- Smash temples, burn books : comparing secularist projects in India and China / Peter van der Veer -- Freedom of speech and religious limitations / Talal Asad.

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