Michael Rectenwald (NYU): Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Secularism and its Contemporary Post-Secular Implications. How secular are secular ethics? Jennifer Michael Hecht reviews The Soul of Doubt: The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx by Dominic Erdozain. No religion is the world’s newest major religion: As secularism grows, atheists and agnostics are trying to expand and diversify their ranks. Secularism and the invention of religion: James G. Chappel reviews Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti; The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions by Michael Walzer; Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd; and Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood.
Tom Holland reviews Batting the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh (and more and more). Jack Miles reviews Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion by Susan Jacoby. Jeffrey Tayler reviews Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World by David Silverman. Julian Baggini recommends the best books on atheism.
