The religiously “unaffiliated”---atheists, agnostics, nonconformists, the unchurched and the uncertain---are underrepresented in Congress, notes Richard Blow today in The New…
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Indifference we can believe in
Why is it so difficult to treat religion as just another cultural phenomenon?
The wisdom of crowds
The majority of Americans may not know much about their own religions, but they seem to have a pretty good…
Obama bears witness (to the past of a tricky phrase)
To “bear witness:” Obama’s phrase was widely quoted but not seriously analyzed. Some attacked (and some still attack) the President…
What ends we mean: A reply to Vincent Pecora
Pecora writes that I claim his “use of the term ‘secularization’ must be secretly eschatological” and that he “cannot escape…
After secularization?
In their posts, Vincent Pecora and Jonathan Sheehan suggest imagining secularization as an open-ended, ongoing project. Neither doubts that something…
Thinking of Vincent Pecora, with Eric Voegelin in mind
Voegelin’s central, surprisingly Kantian thesis is that some recognition of transcendence is the precondition of open, self-reflexive inquiry. Founded on…
Confessions of a casual Löwithian
What is secularization? This question raises the issue of what exactly religion and “the secular” are---terms that, as our discussions…