As I read Roy, he reserves a place for a religion that is not admixed with other types of things,…
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Social activism and rooted liberationist religion in Brazil
Religious leftists in Brazil—of all faiths, with Catholics most prominent among them—already lean on established institutions in combination with the…
Practices of relation: Fernando and Harding
In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on…
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…
Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others
In this forum prompted by Emily Ogden’s Credulity, Susan Lepselter’s The Resonance of Unseen Things, Pamela Klassen’s The Story of…
Revelations in method
Uncanny or rational, spiritual or empirical, the genesis of thinking cannot be pinned down.
Modernity’s residues
How is modernity sticky—prone to leaving a residue? How are secularization theses still affecting us “as gelatinous or glutinous matters…
Secularism’s enchantments and disenchantments: A reply to Goto-Jones and Zhan
Read side by side, these two stunning commentaries on Magic’s Reason—for which I am immensely grateful—both seem to revolve around…
The secularist killjoy: A reply to Schaefer and Smith
I am grateful to Donovan Schaefer and Caleb Smith for their productive, provocative responses. Both in their different ways have…
The art of debunking
If you want to understand secularism, Emily Ogden reminds us in Credulity, then you can begin with the art of…