In Comparing the incommensurate, Vincent Pecora builds on David Buckley’s recent inquiry about methods of comparison and the challenges that…
A note on secular comparison
Rethinking secularism
The scope of secular comparison
As I transition my SSRC research from Senegal to the Philippines, I am constantly ruminating over the question: why compare these two…
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
Since our previous dispatch from the IWM Summer School in Cortona, we have settled back into our real lives in…
The secularization of secularism
In the newest issue of Theory, Culture & Society, British sociologist Gregor McLennan takes a closer look at the "postsecular…
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandal
Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often…
Religion is a syncretism (and that’s okay)
There is something very liberating about Jonathan Sheehan’s call for moving orthogonally into the mundanities of everyday research, even though…
Syrian secularism, a model?
Following up on a recent interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on a special edition of the Charlie Rose Show,…
Shedding daylight on the here and after
In reflecting on the Notes from the Field contributions surrounding the topic of secularization, Jonathan Sheehan, in his recent post…
Rethinking Secularism (AAR video)
At last November's AAR meeting in Montreal, a plenary session presided over by AAR President and SSRC Working Group Chair…
Meta meta meta
Tonight on Big Brother 12, the implosion of the secular age!