From the opening pages, my historical antennae quickly began to quiver. Taylor’s book works in a space far removed from…
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.
Constitutional patriotism
Robert Bellah’s latest post poses clearly the issues that we’ve been agonizing over in Canada, and in a different way…
What holds us together
In his response to my concern about whether “post-Durkheimian” is a viable category, Charles Taylor goes part way in answering…
Sex and the subject of religion
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good…
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
Why is it that sex is such a central part of American political life anyway? Why, when The New York…
Marriage plots
Despite the putative separation of church and state, one of the major places in the U.S. where religion and the…
Our historical Sonderweg
My thanks to all those who have taken the time to respond to The Stillborn God, with sharper comments than…
The forces unleashed
Just what or who or where is religion for Lilla himself? Is the problem really the Bible—that, in addition to…
The last prophet of Leviathan
Lilla turns aside to the small cadre of the Enlightened who see the story for what it is....“We” turns out…
A review in three parts
“The world of today is torn asunder by a great dispute; and not only a dispute, but a ruthless battle…