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About Dr. Thomas R. Rourke
Dr. Thomas R. Rourke was the winner of the American Political Science Association, Religion and Politics Section's Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation on a topic of Religion and Politics, upon receiving his doctorate from Texas Tech in 1994. He taught at FIU in Miami before moving to Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books and numerous articles, most recently: The Roots of Pope Francis's Social and Political Thought (Lanham and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
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Secularization, Marxism, and the Enlightenment in Augusto Del Noce

July 22, 2021 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 9

It is common today to hear people talk of secularization. It is particularly frequent in the discourse of people who see it as a problem. However, it is often the case that the term is […]

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Atheism: The core of modern Western culture in the thought of Augusto del Noce

December 14, 2020 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 26

Augusto del Noce (1910-89) is among the least well known of the brilliant political philosophers of the twentieth century. Having the misfortune of composing very dense academic writings in Italian, and generally considered “conservative,” Del […]

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