SECULARIZING DEMONS: FUNDAMENTALIST NAVIGATIONS IN RELIGION AND SECULARITY

Hegel On Secularity And Consummated Religion

The relation of religion to secular order has once more assumed centre stage in the renewed conflict between secular democracies and a traditional religiosity turned fiercely political. The extreme development of the former had seen politics represented as the only true redemption and religion condemned as the malaise of self-alienated humanity, to be purged altogether or rendered subordinate t...

Spirituality, secularity and religion in psychiatric practice

King & Leavey offer some helpful reflections on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, as a basis for better understanding the relationship between spirituality and psychiatry. In A Secular Age, Taylor, a leading philosopher and Templeton Prize winner, charts the currents by which we may understand secularity to have become what it is in Western society today. However, King & Leavey interpret his soph...

Spirituality, secularity and religion in psychiatric practice

King & Leavey offer some helpful reflections on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, as a basis for better understanding the relationship between spirituality and psychiatry. In A Secular Age, Taylor, a leading philosopher and Templeton Prize winner, charts the currents by which we may understand secularity to have become what it is in Western society today. However, King & Leavey interpret his soph...

Less Religion, Better Society? On Religion, Secularity and Prosperity in Scandinavia

The Fundamentalist Mindset : Psychological Perspectives on Religion , Violence

The Fundamentalist Mindset is the culmination of a project that began as an online discussion and then grew to include a conference and monthly seminar. The current text is a compilation of papers collected on the various topics. The first two sections of the book focus on definitional issues and the underlying psychological characteristics of the mindset. These include the developmental antece...