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Call for Comments: Writing religion for the IPSP
Can we hope for a better society? That is the animating question behind an ambitious project, the International Panel on…
Relativism and Religion: An introduction
Politicized religion seems to have a new enemy: Moral relativism is denounced by believers of all stripes as a threat…
On inclusion
In a recent piece in The New York Times’ column The Stone, philosophers Jay L. Garfield and Bryan W. Van…
CFP: Putting Truth in the Second Place: On Compromise, Religion and Politics
As part of the COMPROMISE research project at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen will host an international…
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy
Secularism has many critics in the academy these days, but not all have given up on it. This is made…
Comparing China and India
The Modern Spirit of Asia is a book about India and China and the ways in which they have been…
Narratives of the Egyptian constitution
In The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh argues that the assumption that religion is inherently authoritarian, divisive, and predisposed to irrational…
Theorizing religion in modern Europe
On March 7-8, 2014, Harvard University will be hosting an international conference entitled "Theorizing Religion in Modern Europe."
The theology blind spot
I have always been puzzled by the fact that Charles Taylor starts his book A Secular Age with a long…