...bottle of cologne, for instance, or a child’s magic marker drawing of a dinosaur—in order to focus on the personhood of those whose objects we now behold. Across both aesthetic...
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What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular
by John D. Boy...a Secularist (1999). In addition, philosophers debating the postsecular also consider epistemology, for instance, with reference to Radical Orthodoxy’s critique of sociology and its reductionist logic of explanation. This is...
March 15, 2011
Christian Human Rights
Is secularism still Christian?
by Camille Robcis...for instance, able to accept the holistic vision of the social that personalism and Catholicism advocated during the 1930s and 1940s? How did they reconcile their focus on individual faith...
June 26, 2015
Rethinking secularism
The mundane against the secular
by Simon During...than supplement lifeʹs religious sanction. In instances like this, as Charles Taylor has implied, opposing parties meet not on the basis of a Rawlsian overlapping consensus but on joint submission...
November 10, 2007
Crossing and conversion
Inheritance and belief
July 3, 2018
...Can we apply what we have learned about religious conversion to instances in which individuals do not embrace the convictions and belief systems of their ancestors? Secularism, Christianity, Islam, liberalism,...
July 3, 2018
Rethinking secularism
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
by Jocelyne Cesari...Charles Taylor, for instance, considered the demand that The Satanic Verses be banned to be illegitimate. Michael Walzer, well known for his relativist approach to values, took a hard-line liberal...
April 23, 2010
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
Le mal des fleurs
May 16, 2019
...teeming cornucopia of images and sensations is interwoven into the fabric of everyday life—except during festivals with their literally amped-up intensity, when, for instance, processions inundate the streets along with...
May 16, 2019
Is Europe Christian?
Is Europe Christian?—An introduction
July 7, 2020
...European secular culture (for instance, the importance of individualism or the sacralization of the state). For the second school, the problem of Islam is that it is not Christianity. My...
July 7, 2020
The Dawn of Everything
The dawn of everything good?
July 14, 2022
...by seasonal rituals, festivals, and revolutionary upheavals. Seasonal festivals for instance can upend relations of power not just once or twice a year. Rather, as Graeber and Wengrow show, some...
July 14, 2022
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees
When does Christian nationalism promote anti-democratic attitudes?
November 15, 2023
...and freedoms. Yet Christian nationalist views are not inherently anti-democratic. In some instances, people who maintain Christian nationalist beliefs are more civically engaged and hold other pro-democracy ideals; they prioritize...
November 15, 2023