The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her ex...(展开全部)

Saba Mahmood is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton) and the coauthor of Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech.

查尔斯·泰勒：加拿大哲学家，是晚近西方特别是英美道德哲学中首屈一指的思想家、社群主义的主将。曾任牛津大学齐切里哲学与伦理学讲座教授，现任加拿大麦基尔大学哲学与政治科学教授。20世纪70年代以来，泰勒以其对黑格尔哲学的再解读、对原子主义式的消极自由的批评、对社群价值的强调、对西方文化中自我认同观念发展的梳理、对承认的政治的研究以及对文化多元论的论证，强烈地影响着西方思想界。

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to 'Minority Report' this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentie...(展开全部)

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick...(展开全部)

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of "alterity...(展开全部)

克里斯汀•米勒 曾为《洛杉矶时报》记者，报道政治、战争等相关题材的新闻，现为ProPublica资深记者，在加州大学伯克利分校教授数据新闻学。著有非虚构作品《血腥钱：在伊拉克浪费的数十亿美元、失去的生命和贪婪的公司》。 肯•阿姆斯特朗 曾就职于《芝加哥论坛报》，2017年入职ProPublica。与尼克•佩里合著的《记分牌，宝贝：大学橄榄球、犯罪和共谋的故事》获爱伦•坡奖最佳真实罪案奖。 两人凭借对《谎报》一书中事件的一系列报道获2016年普利策新闻奖。

克里斯汀•米勒 曾为《洛杉矶时报》记者，报道政治、战争等相关题材的新闻，现为ProPublica资深记者，在加州大学伯克利分校教授数据新闻学。著有非虚构作品《血腥钱：在伊拉克浪费的数十亿美元、失去的生命和贪婪的公司》。 肯•阿姆斯特朗 曾就职于《芝加哥论坛报》，2017年入职ProPublica。与尼克•佩里合著的《记分牌，宝贝：大学橄榄球、犯罪和共谋的故事》获爱伦•坡奖最佳真实罪案奖。 两人凭借对《谎报》一书中事件的一系列报道获2016年普利策新闻奖。