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This book is about how different religions view the world and how it affects their relationship with the state. It also looks at how the natural sciences play a role in this relationship.
This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with the major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social, and political order, as well as offering an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas,
Secularization and the World Religions analyzes the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion-as well as the role of the natural sciences-in a global perspective. Contributors include such internationally renowned scholars as Winfried Brugger, Jos Casanova, Hans Joas, and Hans Kippenberg.
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