This forum draws together scholars of religion, nationalism, and secularism with research expertise in North America, the Middle East, Europe,…
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
Poland
Building secularity via religious revival and the “patrimonialization” of religion
While crude secularization theories predicting the end of religion have, in response to strong criticism, been refined to be less…
Hobbesian Catholicism on the rise in Poland?
The right-wing Law and Justice Party victory in the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections has opened a new chapter in…
Border-crossers, the human person, and Catholic communitarianism
It is a delight to be asked to contribute to this forum on Samuel Moyn’s work on Christianity and human…
Beyond religious nationalism
When Pope John Paul II visited Poland in 1979, he used his addresses and homilies to speak of faith and…
Crossing the sacred secular
In her essay on Salazar v. Buono, Winni Sullivan ponders why crosses present such a difficulty for the modern, secular nation-state, and…