This short essay sketches out the different views that may be identified within the Chinese Communist Party as we look…
church and state
Treating religions (un)equally
Earlier this summer, The Immanent Frame published an off the cuff exchange about the State Department's new initiative to engage religious…
Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
Recent years have seen the resurgence of “metahistories” that seek to provide a single complex narrative of seemingly disparate events…
The civil religion of “I have a dream”
This Wednesday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark "I have a dream" speech and the…
Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives
In Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives, editor Anders Berg-Sørensen compiles works from leading scholars to provide an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to the…
Religious freedom and the Constitution
Dennis J. Goldford was recently interviewed by Religion Dispatches Magazine about his new book The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics,…
Judge rules yoga not a threat to separation of church and state
A judge in California ruled on Monday that teaching yoga in public schools does not violate the U.S. Constitution's separation…
SCOTUS roundup: Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law…
New journal: The Red Egg Review
The Red Egg Review is a new online journal addressing questions of secularism and politics from and Eastern Orthodox perspective
Evangelicals who have left the right
Post-election reporting that 79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney got little attention in the news because most…