As Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s and Saba Mahmood’s earlier contributions to this discussion remind us, the received wisdom in Western policy…
Varieties of religious freedom and governance
pluralism
Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression
The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of seventy years of anti-religious policies---of a period in which religious…
Paradoxes of “religious freedom” in Egypt
The place of religion in the political order is arguably the most contentious issue in post-Mubarak Egypt. With Islamist-oriented parties…
The power of pluralist thinking
It is hard to remember, but religious pluralism meant something quite different fifty years ago. We have, I would argue,…
Hope, tragedy, and prophecy
It is hard not to be convinced by Akeel Bilgrami’s careful, patient, and generous exposition in “Secularism: Its Content and…
There is no such thing as a monoculture
“We develop in multi-cultural and multi-religious societies. To say this is to state the obvious. There is no religiously homogeneous…
John Hick (1922 – 2012)
An influential thinker in the areas of Christology, eschatology, and the problem of evil, Hick will likely best be remembered…
The context of religious pluralism
Akeel Bilgrami's article, “Secularism: Its Content and Context,” is an important and welcome contribution on a topic that has acquired…
Multiple secularities and their normativity as an empirical subject
It is difficult to come to an agreement when normative issues are concerned. Are the “moderate” forms of European secularisms…
The shining and the shiny: An interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly
Sean Dorrance Kelly is chair of Harvard University’s philosophy department and has published on topics like cognitive science, philosophy of…