In his thoughtful The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama argues that there are three pillars of order that are…
Revitalizing the power of the great in-between
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
The challenges of “resurrecting democracy”: Lessons from London
Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life is a weighty call to “resurrect democracy” and to…
Faithfully secular?
Community organizing is faith-based, at least in its best-known form. Since the 1940s, organizers in the mold of Saul Alinsky…
“Faithful secularity” as the best hope for democracy
Luke Bretherton's Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life addresses two crucial holes in contemporary understanding…
Democracy as a work in progress rather than a work of progress
Let me begin by thanking the contributors to this book forum for their respective reviews. I am enormously grateful for…
Law’s Religion—An introduction
In Theory From the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa, Jean and John Comaroff consider the juridification of…
Law as religion
Ben Berger’s book Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a work of great insight. I found…
Making up people
Several decades ago in an essay entitled “Making Up People,” the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking wrote that, “if new modes…
Another Law’s Religion
I cannot help but see a pun in the title of Benjamin Berger's book, Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the…
Keeping up with “culture”
Benjamin Berger’s Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a welcome addition to the vibrantly interdisciplinary scholarship on…