This dialogue reflects an ongoing conversation between Heather Mellquist Lehto and Jolyon Baraka Thomas about transnational approaches to critical secularism…
Schools, megachurches, and the corporate form
higher education
Private gifts, public possession
[I]n a post-Reagan neoliberal world, reform is just another name for privatization, moral slang for civic service that ultimately prioritizes…
Smuggling scholarship—In re The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
The disciplines of knowledge production—through which we instill in our students the practices of objectivity, generalizability, and professionalism—are no less…
Light without Fire: The Making of America’s First Muslim College
Scott Korb, who teaches at the New School and New York University, recently published a book, Light without Fire: The…
No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
In their recent publication, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen discuss how religion…
CFP: Religious Studies 50 years after Schempp
On September 27-29, 2013, the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington will host a conference entitled “Religious Studies 50 Years after Schempp:…
Conference: Religion and the Idea of a University
Religion and the Idea of a Research University, an interdisciplinary project of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of…
Funding for atheists
Recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave the student organization, Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) $69,000, the largest amount of grant…
The graduation wars
In Il Sussidiario, Michael Sean Winters gives his opinion on the recent controversies surrounding commencement speakers invited to Catholic institutions of…
Catholic doctrine and universities
In a recent article, Libby A. Nelson discusses the role of faith in Catholic universities and puts forth the question,…