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If you loved Why I Am Not a Secularist by William E. Connolly, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Sociology of Religion, Political, Philosophy, and Social Science.

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Jeanne Heffernan Schindler

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Religion and Secularism in France Today

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Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

Questioning French Secularism Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb — Jennifer Selby

Questioning French Secularism Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Europe — Erica Howard

Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Europe

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics — H. Cohen

The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Religious Commitment and Secular Reason

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

Criticism of Heaven On Marxism and Theology — Roland Boer

Criticism of Heaven On Marxism and Theology

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

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Getting Our Act Together A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations

Anne Schwenkenbecher

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Philosophy

The Book of Rosy A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border — Rosayra Pablo Cruz

The Book of Rosy A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

Rosayra Pablo Cruz

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Political • Social Science

God Is Red A Native View of Religion — Vine Deloria Jr.

God Is Red A Native View of Religion

Vine Deloria Jr.

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

Disarming Beauty Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom — Julián Carrón Pérez

Disarming Beauty Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom

Julián Carrón Pérez

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

Religion A Humanist Interpretation — Raymond Firth

Religion A Humanist Interpretation

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

Catholic Education: Distinctive and Inclusive — J. Sullivan

Catholic Education: Distinctive and Inclusive

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

Bring Down the Walls Lebanon’s Post-War Challenge — C. Dagher

Bring Down the Walls Lebanon’s Post-War Challenge

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

The Sacred and the Profane The Nature of Religion — Mircea Eliade

The Sacred and the Profane The Nature of Religion

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

On Purpose How We Create the Meaning of Life — Paul Froese

On Purpose How We Create the Meaning of Life

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

The Case for God — Karen Armstrong

The Case for God

Karen Armstrong

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

Culture and the Death of God — Terry Eagleton

Culture and the Death of God

Themes: Sociology of Religion • Philosophy • Social Science

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Why I Am Not a Secularist by William E. Connolly. Connected by Sociology of Religion, Political, Philosophy. Authors featured include Tim Alberta, Angela E. Kamrath, Pradīpa Gokhale, Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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