“…Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal. …”

“…Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. …”

“…The disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand, and of a foundational Western debate on the demise of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. …”
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“…The relation of Hobbes to international law is explained through attention to the place that he occupies among the modern secular natural law thinkers, such as Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel, who founded the modern system of the law of nations. …”

“…Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period. …”

“…What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? …”

“…Still other Mennonites found meaningful religious experience by engaging in social action and justice even when these actions appeared in "secular" forms. These emerging identities--Evangelical, Anabaptist, and secular--covered a broad spectrum, yet represented a selective retaining and discarding of Mennonite religious practices and expressions. …”

“…But in countries across the globe, secular views are widely held. Whether religious or secular, individuals, communities and governments still have to make decisions about what people want from life. …”

“…The use of non-secular, religious, concepts in contemporary managerial discourse to legitimise leadership, organisation and work has been undertheorised. …”

“…As the century wore on, and as Catholics increasingly came to identify with France's more secular "civilizing mission," the conservatives' admiration for Islam would be eclipsed by a more racialized, colonialist orientalism. …”

“…As the century wore on, and as Catholics increasingly came to identify with France's more secular "civilizing mission," the conservatives' admiration for Islam would be eclipsed by a more racialized, colonialist orientalism. …”

“…The third section presents Bernardi's secular andreligious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetryfor music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.…”

“…Orthodoxy was itself made new in ways that resisted the secular demand that religion remain a private undertaking. …”

“…The book argues that the political domination of a secular state as an agency over religion has not suppressed, but transformed, religion into a political tool for the same agency to organise the polity and the society along its own ideological tenets. …”

“…Chapter Fifteen: David Nirenberg, "The Two Faces of Secular Violence against Jews."…”

“…Por un lado, poner en relación un modelo avanzado de Gestión Empresarial - con sensibilidades hacia sus aspectos éticos - con dos paradigmas de Humanismo Ético contemporáneo: secular y cristiano. Y por otro lado, reflexionar - a partir de mis experiencias profesionales como directivo, consultor de recursos humanos y formador de directivos - sobre las posibilidades de convergencia sinérgica entre ambos modelos…”
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“…The modifications of Roman law by the Church in the Middle Ages, the covenant law of the American Puritans, and a significant portion of Anglo-American secular law has been derived from and influenced by this older legal tradition. …”

“…Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma…”

“…As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. …”

“…No es tarea fácil contextualizar al patrono del clero secular español y Doctor de la Iglesia universal con sus múltiples significados y su admirable polivalencia en pleno siglo XVI, donde él mismo se convierte en uno de los gigantes de la fe. …”