This volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon--the placement of fish symbols on the rear of automobiles. There are two kinds: one a fish outline with a cross, exhibited
Religion, Violence, and the Secular State assesses contemporary religious violence in the context of tensions between state secularism and religious ethics, and ultimately concludes that the West must
Caiazza examines the concept of progress, its separate varieties, the current rejection of it, and how it may be reconsidered on both philosophical and scientific bases. He covers history and the impa
Although science and its ever expanding technological capabilities have clearly replaced Protestantism as the center of our culture, Caiazza, an independent scholar, argues that the secular state is a
Within the last one hundred years, the scientific conception of the universe has undergone radical change. As a result a new field has evolved, called “cosmology,” that examines the philosophical and
Religion, Violence, and the Secular State assesses contemporary religious violence in the context of tensions between state secularism and religious ethics, and ultimately concludes that the West must
