Taking a relatively “thin” understanding of public religion that challenges—rather than transports—the term’s typical liberal and normative baggage, the essays…
New vistas in studying religion and public life
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CFP: Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life
A new grants program for journalists, sponsored by the Knight Program at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism:…
Call for papers: Spirituality, political engagement, and public life
The SSRC Working Group on Spritituality, Political Engagement & Public Life is inviting submissions of abstracts for a conference to…
Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts
Between 2006-2009, with the support of the Teagle Foundation, four self-identifying secular liberal arts campuses—Bucknell University and Macalester, Vassar, and…
The dangers of spirituality?
CNN profiles the growing "spiritual but not religious" population, contrasting the views of some who fear that the spiritual turn…
Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in conversation
In a symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities…
So you want to be a new atheist
If you want to be a New Atheist, first and foremost, you need to possess an unrelenting desire to help.…
Cosmopolitanism and the ideal of postsecular public reason
Cosmopolitanism is not realistically imaginable as the transcendence of all forms of belonging. To propose a leap into traditionless secular…