The Secularism and Secularity Unit of the American Academy of Religion explores a broad a set of questions associated with the secular, including its complex entanglements with religion and spirituality. This is a call for proposals for the 2018 AAR conference to be held November 17-20, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Submissions are due online by March 1, 2018 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
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Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we recover the political skills, spaces, and practices that encourage greater humility.
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is familiar to readers of The Immanent Frame, to re-problematize the very notion…
On organizing, feelings, and the body
I miss the curiosity we once held for each other in our churches, neighborhoods, and organizations. That curiosity needs to be broadened more than we have ever practiced it before. We must…
Passion and virtue in public life
When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic public life?
The other evangelicals
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork across the country, I witnessed evangelicals engage diverse racial, economic, religious, political, and moral-cultural others in a spirit of flexibility, openness, collaboration, and self-critical reflection and adjustment.












