Product Description: This collection explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers and politicians influence science as practiced and understood today. Contributors explore the social and scientific repercussions of 'customizing' science to fit the needs and interests of various groups...read more

Product Description: Religion is a problematic phenomenon. Although we acknowledge that it has an important function in many people's lives, we are also aware of the tremendous damage it has made, and continues to make. In this study, it is argued that the different problems which religion give rise to indicate that we have insufficient resources to criticize and improve religious practices when needed...read more

Product Description: How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? What different forms of interactions between and negotiations of religion and religious beliefs can we see in contemporary society? What are the primary contenders in these interactions and negotiations? The authors of Religion, Law and Democracy give ample examples of a variety of interaction processes between different expressions of religion and different spheres of society, such as the media, the judicial systems and state administration and policy...read more