In late July, The Immanent Frame published a set of reflections on the Department of State's plans for a new…
Engaging whose religion?
civil society
The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
At the end of August, the two of us joined approximately 30 scholars from around the world in Antwerp, Belgium…
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
Alfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and founder and director of the Center for…
The resurgence of the civic
Occupy Wall Street and cognate groups around the world are part of a protest movement that is both global and…
Religion, elections, and civil society in Egypt
Amid the ongoing upheaval in Egypt, Clifford Bob discusses the U.S. Government perspective on Egypt's future and the possibly---or, rather,…
Conflict resolution curtailed
At altmuslim, civil rights attorney Sahar Aziz comments on the US Supreme Court's recent decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project…
Engagement for whose good?
It is coincidental but telling that Emile Nakhleh’s post supporting U.S. “engagement” with Muslim communities appeared the same week as…
Religions and the postnational constellation
Granted that there is a global economy, global culture, global law, global civil society, even global festivals, why are global…
Is a global civil religion possible?
In my essay “Civil Religion in America,” first published in Daedalus in 1967, exactly forty years ago---which, unfortunately, quite a…
After Durkheim
I continue, as I reread it, to have the highest opinion of A Secular Age and to believe that it…