In many ways, the argument of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is a familiar one. Gregory aims to explain our modern condition…
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Has modernity failed?
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is noteworthy for its readiness to tread upon questions of morality and metaphysics that most historians…
Ascetic faith in a modern world
Jainism, a religion from India that emphasizes a disciplined adherence to non-violence, is one of the oldest religions in the…
Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is co-sponsoring a conference later this week on "credulity."
On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief
This short piece attempts to come at the current debate on law and religious freedom from two unusual angles. I…
Secularization and disenchantment
Over the past decade, scholarly inquiry into contemporary religion has moved from an understanding of religion as waning in the…
Tunisian modernities
Over at the University of Notre Dame's Contending Modernities blog, Michael Driessen takes lessons from the secular-Islamist negotiation happening in…
What is religious freedom supposed to free?
What is religious freedom supposed to free? That is, what is the operant understanding of “religion” behind the claims of…
Religious roots of the secular
At the Harvard University Press Blog, historian Brad S. Gregory discusses his latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious…
Modern enchantment
Recently released by Oxford University Press, Michael Saler's latest volume explores the imaginary realms of the modern world.