Forces of Secularity in the Modern World Volume 1

Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe-the process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of earl...

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Autor principal: Strehle, Stephen (auth)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2018
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