...Joseph Blankholm This article bridges the gap between the study of religion-making secularism and the study of secular people by analyzing three recent lawsuits filed by secular activists in the United States. Each suit asks the courts to understand nonbelievers in a different way: one group...

... the potential to connect various religious and nonreligious adherents, for, “if the true believer is a simulacrum of himself, in what relation does the nonbeliever stand to her- self?” Do not nontheists “harbor truant moments of forgetful faith that belie the steadfastness we present to Christians...

... into a juridical order that can be imposed on believers and nonbelievers alike. Thus Islam operates as a formal technology of governance, as a figure of sover- eignty, and as a fabric of subjects.7 Despite their diversity, these traditions have one...

...: he imposed a rule of sharia, declared a religious war (jihad) against infi- dels, reimposed jizyah (a tax on nonbelievers), and adopted a puritanical lifestyle dictated by the sharia.7 So tyrannical was his rule that the Hindu population rose...

... of God’s glory might perform at a different scale. The materialization of a hypervisible worship space demonstrates the strength of Christianity to believers and nonbelievers alike: The steel pillars will form a web of strength to shield...

... by the Nazis in 1944. “One is French if one considers Christianity and the Enlightenment as the two faces of the same civilization to whose legacy one feels the heir.”31 The tacit assumption is that the reconciliation of “believers and nonbelievers” in secular Christianity must leave out Muslims...

... of a secular museum, typical of the “aggressive tendency” of the Russian Orthodox Church to “swallow up” secular institutions (Forbidden Art, n.d.). Yet the rifts produced over these exhibits appear to be based not exclusively on one’s status as a religious believer or an atheist — some nonbelievers also...