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One Nation, Losing God
Secularization Debate in the Public Square
Barry A. Kosmin, Founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College
The Secularization Debate in the Public Square: Media responses to ARIS 2008 (slideshow)
Secularism Bibliography
Curated by Phil Zuckerman
- The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Michael Martin
- An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism, Gordon Stein
- The Bible Losing Faith in Faith, Dan Barker
- The Atheist Manifesto, Michel Onfray
- The Jesus Mysteries, Freke and Gandy
- The Jesus Puzzle, Earl Doherty
- Secret Origins of the Bible, Tim Callahan
- Celsus: On the True Doctrine The Essence of Christianity, Ludwig Feuerbach
- Putting Away Childish Things, Uta Ranke-Heineman
- Secularism and Secularity, Kosmin and Keysar
- Letters From Earth, Mark Twain
- On the Gods and Other Essays, Robert Ingersoll
- The Case Against Christianity, Michael Martin
- Faces in the Clouds, Stewart Guthrie
- The Sacred and the Secular, Norris and Inglehart
- Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, Phil Zuckerman
- Who Wrote the New Testament? Berton Mack
- The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, Robert Price
- God: The Failed Hypothesis, Victor Stenger
- Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon, D. Persuitte
- The Secularization Debate, Swator and Olson
- The Death of Christian Britain, C. Brown
- The Sacred Canopy, Peter Berger
- Atheists, Hunsberger and Altemeyer
- Freethinkers, Susan Jaconby
- God is Dead, Steve Bruce
- Awakening of a Jehovah’s Witness, Diane Wilson
- How we Believe, Michael Shermer
- The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
- The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible, Ruth H. Green
- The Cheese and the Worms, C. Ginzburg
- The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, Ubn Warraq
- Why I am not a Muslim, Ibn Warraq
- The Sociology of Religion, Malcolm Hamilton
- No Man Knows my History, Fawn Brodie
- One Religion, Marx and Engels
- The Natural History of Religion, David Hume
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
- Natural Atheism, David Eller
- Anything by Madeleine Murray O’Hare
Bibliography of Indian Secularism
– Bhargava, Rajeev . The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism. University of Delhi. http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/southasia/events/bhargava.pdf
– Birodkar, Sudheer. Hindu History – Religious Tolerance and Secularism in India. http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/secularroots.html
– Engineer, Asghar Ali. 2006. Secularism in India. The Milli Gazette Online. (http://www.milligazette.com/dailyupdate/2006/20060623_secular_india.htm)
– Ganguly, Sumit. 2003. The Crisis of Indian Secularism. Journal of Democracy, Volume 14, Number 4, October 2003, pp.11-25.
– Kesavan, Mukul. 2003. India’s Embattled Secularism, The Wilson Quarterly 27 no1 Winter 2003. P.61-67. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/results/external_link_maincontentframe.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.42
– Marbaniang, Domenic. 2005, 2009. Secularism in India: A Historical Outline. Online Progressive Version #2.
– Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney (Editor, Contributor) 2007 The Crisis of Secularism in India [Paperback]. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (Editor, Contributor), Shabnum Tejani (Contributor), Paula Richman (Contributor), V. Geetha (Contributor), Sunil Khilnani (Contributor), Ashis Nandy (Contributor), Nivedita Menon (Contributor) http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Secularism-Anuradha-Dingwaney-Needham/dp/0822338467/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280762642&sr=8-5
– Pantham, Thomas. 1997. Indian Secularism and Its Critics: Some Reflections. The Review of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 3, Non-Western Political Thought pp. 523-540 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1408550.
– Shuja, Sharif. 2005. Indian Secularism: Image and Reality. Contemporary Review, 287 Journal 2005. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/results/external_link_maincontentframe.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.42
– Stephens, Robert J. 2007. Sites of Conflict in the Indian Secular State: Secularism, Caste and Religious Conversion. Journal of Church State, 49 no2 Spring 2007. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/results/external_link_maincontentframe.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.42
– Tejani, Shabnum. 2008. Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History, 1890-1950. Indiana: Indiana University Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=nBXqzntBOGIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=indian+secularism&source=bl&ots=_kIjMdDCh_&sig=qZmgjj9gE3NPPKigpXdjUJX5uNA&hl=en&ei=IJhRTLm2NoP68AbI46SiBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CEQQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q&f=false
– Upadhyaya, Prakash Chandra. 1992. The Politics of Indian Secularism. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Oct. 1992), pp. 815-853. http://www.jstor.org/stable/312941
– Warrier, Maya. 2003. Processes of Secularization in Contemporary India: Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb., 2003), pp. 213-253 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3876556