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Bruce Ledewitz

Bruce Ledewitz, Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, is a recognized expert in the fields of criminal law and constitutional law and he has written widely in both specialized legal journals and national media such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. His books include Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and his latest is Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism from Indiana University Press.

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Religion Dispatches
New atheist Daniel Dennet joined Charles Taylor and a host of others gathered at the New School Conference on the religious/secular divide, predicting a complex future for the culture wars.
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Religion Dispatches
In an interview with Bruce Ledewitz on his forthcoming Hallowed Secularism, the law professor tells RD that the so-called New Atheists want to lead secularists, many of whom know very little about religion, into opposition to religion. But for secularism to be healthy, he says, it must learn from the wisdom of the religious traditions.
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