The Urbanophile discusses the vibrant presence of religion in modern metropolises.
“Religion and the City”
Rethinking secularism
Minnesota secularism gone global
Minnesota politics is a bit, well, different. But uproar over the place of religion in an election mailing may show…
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
Colin Jager’s reading of the British romantics places them at the center of debates about religion, secularism, and pluralism today.…
Secular, tolerant societies
An interesting article by Joe Friesen and Sandra Martin on secularism and multiculturalism in Canada appeared in The Globe and Mail…
Pew poll shows Americans lack religious “knowledge”
A newly published report from the Pew Forum Religion and Public Life shows that Americans seemingly know very little about religious…
In Turkey, religious and secular living side by side
In many large cities around the world, religious people and secular people tend to live in separate neighborhoods. This has…
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
At the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we…
Secularism a point of pride
Paul Cliteur, author of The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism, defends the secularist stance at washingtonpost.com.
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part I)
Let us recognize, from the outset, the delicious perversity of inviting comments upon comments about the comments about Charles Taylor’s…
Secular representations of religion on Turkish television
Television broadcasting has played a significant role in the creation of a public governed by norms of secular reason in…