In seeking to make sense of modernity in the classical tradition of sociology as a field, the body of Robert…
Where religion comes from and leads us
modernity
Conference/CFP: Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse
A conference organized by the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway, to take place on July…
9/11 chronomania
Under its congressional mandate to “examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks…[and] make a…
Religion in the call center
When I set out to examine the lifestyle changes of employees working night shifts in India’s call centers, I was…
Conference: Multiple Secularities and Global Interconnectedness
On October 13-15, the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig, will hold its second annual conference, Multiple Secularities and…
Spirituality: what remains?
To use the concept of spirituality analytically is enormously difficult. There comes a point in reading this book when one…
Post-secular development
For most of the second half of the twentieth century development was assumed to be consonant with modernity and its…
Conference: “Secularism in the Late Modern Age”
On January 28-29, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia will host a conference on…
“Women, Family, and Society in Islam and Catholicism”
The University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies concluded the New York City launch of its new…
New blog on religion and modernity
Contending Modernities, a research initiative of the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, has launched a new blog, featuring essays by Margot…