End of Secularism

The End of Secularism
Hunter Baker

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One of the most comprehensive attacks on secularism yet attempted argues that advocates of secularism misunderstand the borders between science, religion, and politics and cannot solve the problem of religious difference.

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Contents

Preface 9
Introduction: My Story 11
1. The Early Church and the Empire 25
2. By What Right? By What Power? 33
3. New Winds Blowing: Two Reformers and a Schemer 39
4. Reformation’s Wake: Uneasy Pluralism and Social Contracts 47
5. American Story: Religious Expatriates, A New World, and Awakening 53
6. France: A Different Kind of Revolution 59
7. Analyzing the Evolution of Church, State, and Secularism 63
8. The American Model, the American Controversy 71
9. American Christianity: Triumph and Trial 87
10. Secularism: A Failed Strategy for Social Peace 97
11. Purpose-driven Secularism 121
12. The Non-uniqueness of Theocratic Danger 131
13. The Department of God 139
14. The Legend of Warfare between Science and Religion 149
15. The Knowledge Situation 167
16. Secularists Sit One Out in the Bible Belt 183
Summary 193
Selected Bibliography 195
Notes 202
Index 217