LEADER 03277nam 22006852 450 001 9910786123003321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-23648-7 010 $a1-139-61075-9 010 $a1-139-60903-3 010 $a1-139-62563-2 010 $a1-139-61261-1 010 $a1-139-61633-1 010 $a1-299-39999-1 010 $a1-139-62191-2 010 $a1-139-19926-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000338709 035 $a(EBL)1139758 035 $a(OCoLC)829459919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000836017 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11470217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836017 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997619 035 $a(PQKB)10024604 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139199261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1139758 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1139758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10667750 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL471249 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000338709 100 $a20111122d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond church and state $edemocracy, secularism, and conversion /$fMatthew Scherer$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 240 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aReligion, politics, and democracy 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-57943-0 311 $a1-107-02609-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: beyond the separation of church and state: secularism as conversion -- 1. The authorized narrative and crystalline structure of conversion in Augustine's Confessions -- 2. Toleration and conversion in Locke's letters: it is 'above all things necessary to distinguish' -- 3. The crystalline structure of conversion: Henri Bergson's Two Sources -- 4. Saint John (Rawls): the miracle of secular reason -- 5. The wish for a better life: Stanley Cavell's critique of the social contract -- Conclusion: from Supernovas into The Deep: secularism as conversion, a conversion of secularism. 330 $aSecularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as 'a wall of separation between Church and State'. This book moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that reshapes both religion and politics. Borrowing a term from religious traditions, the book goes further to argue that this process should be understood as a process of conversion. Matthew Scherer studies Saint Augustine, John Locke, John Rawls, Henri Bergson and Stanley Cavell to present a more accurate picture of what secularism is, what it does, and how it can be reimagined to be more conducive to genuine democracy. 517 3 $aBeyond Church & State 606 $aSecularism 606 $aReligion and politics 615 0$aSecularism. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 676 $a322/.1 686 $aPOL010000$2bisacsh 700 $aScherer$b Matthew$f1977-$01559898 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786123003321 996 $aBeyond church and state$93825455 997 $aUNINA