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September 12, 2012
Weary of religious conservatives urging “defense of marriage” and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image?  Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In HOW TO BE SECULAR, Jacques Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other. Watch his video series on secularism in the news (or, rather, where secularism SHOULD be in the news) on The Huffington Post. Watch the book trailer here.  

Weary of religious conservatives urging “defense of marriage” and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image? 

Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In HOW TO BE SECULAR, Jacques Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other.

Watch his video series on secularism in the news (or, rather, where secularism SHOULD be in the news) on The Huffington Post.

Watch the book trailer here.  

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July 03, 2012

In the wake of President Obama’s health care victory last week and what that means for the availability of contraception, Jacques Berlinerblau, professor at Georgetown University and director of its Program for Jewish Civilization, asks the question: whose religious freedom is it anyway?

Jacques’ book, HOW TO BE SECULAR, comes out in September. 

(Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk)

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