At SSRC.org, three former International Dissertation Research Fellows (IDRF) reflect on Ronit Ricci's Islam Translated.
Translating Islam in South Asia
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What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
Book launch: Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
On Tuesday, May 1, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs will host the launch of Rethinking Religion…
Cultural models and Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…
Globalization and secularization
In the latest issue of the European Journal of Sociology, José Casanova reviews two recent works by eminent British sociologists:…
The impossibility of (international) religious freedom
Religion blogger Doughlas Remy presents his reading of Winnifred Sullivan’s The Impossibility of Religious Freedom in relation to the politics…
Reflections on summer reading
As the summer months draw to a close, we've turned again to a handful of our contributors, asking: What are…
Secularism and its discontents
In the current issue of the New Yorker, James Wood reviews The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We…
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so)…
Inside Scientology
Religion Dispatches interviews Janet Reitman on her newly published book, Inside Scientology: The History of America’s Most Secretive Religion.