Jocelyn Maclure

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income
inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging
analysis, the authors provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two
main principles of secularism - equal respect, and freedom of conscience - and
its two operative modes - separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State,
and State neutrality vis-a-vis religions. But more crucially, they make the
powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically
interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path
to religious and philosophical freedom." --jacket… (más)