Last week, Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life hosted a panel discussion with several contributors to the…
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“When Religion Is Not a Choice”
At the Martin Marty Center's Religion and Culture Web Forum, Slavica Jakelić shares a chapter from her Collectivistic Religions: Religions,…
Stephen Prothero on inter-religious difference, again
Charles Gelman has already posted here on Stephen Prothero's book God is Not One, but a new interview with the…
Casting away our crutches
The various essays on A Secular Age gathered in Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Craig Calhoun’s Varieties of Secularism in…
Religion and the civic imagination
Since the publication of Robert Bellah’s 1967 article “Civil Religion in America,” discussions of the topic have tended to devolve…
Swiss democracy
With a Muslim constituency estimated to be between four and six percent of its total population, Switzerland is hardly in…
Must secular rights fail?
It does certainly seem, as Simone Chambers points out in "Do good philosophers make good citizens?", that Dr. Wolterstorff ultimately…
Do good philosophers make good citizens?
Perhaps one might argue that Justice: Rights and Wrongs is not simply a contribution to a conversation among philosophers. It…
Nicholas Wolterstorff’s fear of the secular
The truly dynamic discussion in America today about religion and politics is not between "wall of separation" secularists and Christian…
Who’s afraid of sociology?
Attempts to define "evangelical" often hover between theological definitions from those who self-identify as evangelicals and so-called sociological definitions from…