"We should not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The debate over the sociological thesis of secularization has led…
A postsecular world society?: An interview with Jürgen Habermas
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Haiti and the unseen world
I have written a good bit recently about the intense religious responses to the Haiti earthquake, as congregations regroup in…
Khomeini’s long shadow
On Tuesday evening at the New York Public Library, Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand held forth before a sizable and attentive…
Mute symbols of Islam
The public visibility of religious and cultural signs of Islam expresses the presence of Muslim actors in European countries. The…
‘Interfaith’ includes atheists in NYC
The New York Times reports on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual interfaith breakfast, which for the first time in eight years…
The Indian religious marketplace
Hartosh Singh Bal explores why, even as India's religious marketplace has grown more vibrant, the Hindu political party is on…
The Future of Islam
John Esposito's latest book, The Future of Islam, will be available in February 2010 from Oxford University Press.
Jon Stewart’s favorite conservative
Mike Huckabee just might be Jon Stewart's favorite conservative Christian politician. Back in December of 2008, Huckabee and Stewart had a…
Evangelicals and nuclear abolitionism
At First Thoughts, Brian Auten discusses the Two Futures Project, led by Baptist minister Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, and the prospects for…
Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation
In a recent symposium held by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the…