... the nature of evidence and how it should properly bear on belief, before turning to the assignment of credences, or degrees of belief. Finally, it addresses the ethics of belief, and the social and political character of knowledge, particularly through the lens of democracy. The chapter also provides brief...

... the public in favor of private choices. Conservative Christian activists have sought to secularize science by framing scientific claims as matters of personal beliefs and values that demand liberal toleration in the same way as do religious beliefs in a secular society. In this sense, intelligent designers...

... personalism, we can see how Berkman, Malcolm X, and John Taylor exist in the same tradition of “embodied belief” as Thoreau, Jefferson, and the Doukhobors. Catholic Church Day Dorothy New York in the Fifties Wakefield Hennacy described in One Man Revolution Hennacy Salt Lake Tribune Wakefield Dan War...

...This chapter draws on well-respected international survey data to provide clear evidence of secularization and support for secularization theory. We examine changes in religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging in dozens of countries around the world. There are two key elements to secularization...

...In contrast to the breadth of the previous chapter, this chapter takes a deep dive into four countries to explore the variations in secularization: Norway, Chile, South Korea, and the United States. In addition to examining widely used measures of belief, behavior, and belonging, we look much...

... supremacy shapes the law of evidence. The first section of the volume analyzes the value of truth for democracy, asking why we should care about knowledge as such. The second section features an exchange about #BelieveWomen on questions of credibility and the ethics of belief. The final section focuses...

... sought to have religion play a wider role in the life of the nation. Though it is difficult to measure the piety of these Founding Fathers, it is clear that their generation respected religious belief and believed that faith had an important role in the life of the new nation. Church of England...

... conversion missionary women religious Catholic schools religion belief Robert Orsi Talal Asad Randolph had heard stories about priests and Catholicism, though he didn’t pay them much mind. He was a father who had managed to raise a large family in Chicago’s Black Belt. For most of Randolph’s life...

...This chapter focuses on secular people’s fundamental paradox, (non)belief, and it provides an overview of the belief-centered terms they use to describe themselves. Some secular people refuse to be called “nonbelievers” because they insist they have beliefs; others resist the language of “belief...

... of the book's chapters focuses on a different aspect of religion toward which secular people are ambivalent: belief, community, ritual, conversion, and tradition. Taken together, they show that secular people inherit an ancient tradition that includes beliefs, institutions, and embodied practices. By recovering...

... administration jobs, and the sexual harassment of female athletes by their coaches. After discussing Title IX's response to retaliation against athletes and coaches who complain about gender inequality, the chapter considers the reasonable belief doctrine and its pitfalls. It then explores what kinds...