Contents

Preface

Essay 1

Is Northern Europe Still the Last Bastion of Liberal Tolerance?

Essay 2

Irshad Manji on Faith, Freedom, Human Rights and Love: Why Opposing Religion via a Politico-Secular Discourse is a Blunder

Essay 3

Some Distinctions on Christian and Secular Humanism

Essay 4

An Imaginary Conversation on Myth, Reason and Religion between Plato and Joseph Campbell at an Athens Café

Essay 5

The Immigrant “Other” in US and EU Politico-Religious Experiences: A Comparative Perspective

Essay 6

Eight Scholars’ Views (Dante, Husserl, Levinas, Dawson, Weiler, Habermas, Eisenstadt and Troeltsch) on the Loss of European Spiritual Identity

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Essay 7

The Corruption of Religion: Russia's Military-Ecclesiastical Complex

Essay 8

Corruption and the Self-Destruction of Democracy

Essay 9

Pope Francis’s Urgent Warning on the Dangers of Populism

Essay 10

White Supremacy in the White House: Rooted in a Dark Theory of History

Essay 11

Power without Moral Compass: Caligula, Trump, Pius XIII, and Machiavelli

Essay 12

Honor, Ethics, Shame, Guilt and Civilization

Essay 13

A New World Order: The End of Pax Americana and Putin's Enigmatic New Russianness

Essay 14

Democracy: The Missing Ingredient in the Bannon/Dugin Concept of Eurasianism

Essay 15

The Stubborn Facts on Eurocentrism: Nostalgia for the Cold War, Misinformation, and the Russian National Identity Discourse

Essay 16

The Nightmare of Modern Democracy in the Age of Alternate Facts: A Sickness unto Death?

Essay 17

Pope Francis’s Critique of Bannon’s Views on Christianity

Essay 18

Darkness at Twilight: The Devil’s Bargain in American Politics?

About the Author

Index

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