...their studies for over a decade. Thomas Luckmann argued similarly in his widely read article “Shrinking Transcendence, Expanding Religion?” (sub. req.). This “privatization” argument is usually couched within a rather...
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Resurrecting Democracy
The challenges of “resurrecting democracy”: Lessons from London
by Jane Wills...(BBCO) as developed by Saul Alinsky in 1930s Chicago and subsequently by a range of organizations in the United States and more recently, beyond. The book draws on Luke Bretherton’s...
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist
Atheism and antihumanism as intellectual-historical objects
by Stefanos Geroulanos...to reappear as positive, whether explicitly or despite themselves: Precisely because these philosophies do not always have the same target at the same moment, Man’s imminent effacement is invoked repeatedly,...
Rethinking secularism
Something more mundane
by Jonathan Sheehan...posts by graduate fellows who will be blogging regularly at The Immanent Frame throughout the summer. Follow their ongoing efforts here.—ed. * * * Pondering a bit the posts so...
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Holiday roundup
by Laura Duane...coverage and a ton of publicity for their December shenanigans. Below I have rounded up some of the religious aspects of the day, as well as some truly entertaining holiday...
Is this all there is
Secularism’s two ends
by Vincent Lloyd
...of secularism have ostensibly been concerned with social justice, but it is only relatively recently that an explicit concern with social justice has begun to enter into the conversation. Critics...
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Digital publishing and the academic study of religion
by Wei Zhu...took a bit of courage and brave experimentation to forgo a traditionally published and bound volume in favor of an all-digital platform for one’s work. Still, peer-reviewed, bound and traditionally...