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Religion and the Earthly City
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 76, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 989-1000
- 10.1353/sor.2009.0025
- Article
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This paper explores the religious origins of the secular. It troubles the often rigid and misleading opposition between the secular and sacred through an exploration of this relationship in the thought of Augustine, Calvin, Madison, up to Obama.