Jacques Berlinerblau, professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about his new book Secularism: The Basics. He also discusses the religious roots of church-state separation, models of political secularism in France and elsewhere, the potential of the nones, and current threats to political secularism in the United States.

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