TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scherer,Matthew
TI  - Beyond church and state : democracy, secularism, and conversion
SN  - 9781107026094
U1  - 322.1 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - CUP
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Political science
N2  - "Secularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as 'a wall of separation between Church and State'. This book moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that reshapes both religion and politics. Borrowing a term from religious traditions, the book goes further to argue that this process should be understood as a process of conversion. Matthew Scherer studies Saint Augustine, John Locke, John Rawls, Henri Bergson and Stanley Cavell to present a more accurate picture of what secularism is, what it does, and how it can be reimagined to be more conducive to genuine democracy"--
ER  -