I view my task not as that of winning points in a debate on the grounds of logical or rhetorical…
José Casanova
José Casanova is professor of sociology at Georgetown University, a Senior Fellow in Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. His publications include “Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective,” The Hedgehog Review (2006); “The Long Journey of Turkey into Europe and the Dilemmas of European Civilization,” Constellations (2006); “Einwanderung und der neue religiöse Pluralismus. Ein Vergleich zwischen der EU und den USA,” Leviathan (2006); and “Religion, the New Millennium and Globalization,” Sociology of Religion (2001). He is a member of the SSRC working group on religion, secularism, and international affairs.
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The great separation
December 7, 2007
One should be suspicious of any argument that presents the multiple alternatives facing contemporary societies around the world today as…
Secular, secularizations, secularisms
October 25, 2007
In discussions of secularism such as the one emerging here, I think it is important to begin with some basic…