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In the aftermath of the Second World War, Karl Popper introduced his concept of the "open society". Poppers focussed primarily on communism and fascism. Nowadays, communism and fascism have faded away as the primary challenges for open, democratic states, but new challenges have come to the fore. Closed communities pose a significant challenge and sometimes a threat to democratic values. What are those closed communities? This book presents a ...

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A New Introduction to Legal Method provides a comprehensive overview of legal science, and the scientific character of legal knowledge. This textbook is ideal for students of legal method, and will be of great interest to those studying legal science, jurisprudence, legal research and legal skills.

A New Introduction to Legal Method provides a comprehensive overview of legal science, and the scientific character of legal knowledge. This textbook is ideal for students of legal method, and will be of great interest to those studying legal science, jurisprudence, legal research and legal skills.

This book aims to understand the motives of religious fanatics' and their extreme reactions to religious satire and criticism by means of the concept of theoterrorism: terrorism grounded in religious zealotry.

Instead of the move towards secularization predicted by many social thinkers, the closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed a major upsurge in religion - followed by a resurgence of religious fanaticism and global religious terrorism. Was the "secularization thesis" really such a dismal failure? And, perhaps more importantly, how should we react to the spiritual and ideological challenges that radical religious movements pose to Weste...

Het Atheïstisch woordenboek is geen werk met definities van begrippen zoals een Van Dale, maar ligt meer in de lijn van het Filosofisch woordenboek van Voltaire uit 1764 of Ideas that Matter van Anthony Grayling uit 2009. Het is een boek waarin allerlei lemma's die met atheïsme en irrationaliteit te maken hebben alfabetisch zijn geordend, en lijkt in dat opzicht meer een encyclopedie dan een woordenboek in de gebruikelijke zin. Het begint bij...

Gerechtelijke vervolging van religie-kritiek en vreemdelingenhaat Wat hebben de filmster Brigitte Bardot, de journaliste Oriana Fallaci, de schrijver Michel Houellebecq en de politicus Geert Wilders gemeen? Dat is dat zij alle vier geconfronteerd zijn met juridische processen waarin zij werden aangeklaagd vanwege vreemdelingenhaat, belediging van moslims en islamkritiek. De rechtsgeleerde en filosoof Paul Cliteur, hoogleraar encyclopedie van ...

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The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism" shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a "secular outlook" on life and politics. Shows how secularism can answer the problem of religious terrorismProvides new perspectives on how religious minorities can be integrated into liberal democraciesReveals how secularism has gained a new political and moral significance.Also e...