Almost two years ago to this day, our research group hosted its inaugural conference at the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. And now the subsequent book ‘The Non-Religious and the State’ has finally been published with De Gruyter Brill!
19 contributions strong with a global scope, this edited volume is the first to play topsy-turvy with books on church-state relations. All too often the unchurched and the non-religious are all but an afterthought in compendiums that ask how states should relate themselves to life stances and worldviews. The present volume finally puts the now very large segments of non-religious individuals in the spotlight.
It shows, through interdisciplinary work by historians anthropologists sociologists and others, how seculars act, organise and strategise to create a space for themselves.
Food for thought and discussion with colleagues working on secular studies, secularisation dynamics, worldview, interface or -belief and other related fields.