J. Caleb Clanton reviews Paul Cliteur's The Secular Outlook, which aims "to show how religious believers and unbelievers can live…
A review of Paul Cliteur’s The Secular Outlook
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Post-secular development
For most of the second half of the twentieth century development was assumed to be consonant with modernity and its…
A Muslim revolution in Egypt
News organizations reporting on Egypt in the last two and half weeks have repeatedly raised the specter of the Muslim…
Islam and the compulsion of the political
Invariably, contemporary discussions of Islam seem to begin and end with the relationship between Islam and politics—both anti-Islamic pundits and…
The power of a new political imagination
The Tunisian revolution, as a revolution of ordinary people, inspired the demonstrations in Egypt, leading to Mubarak’s fall. It has…
Secularism and race
The Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London is hosting a one-day conference today…
Secularism despite itself
Kile Jones, a Ph.D. student at the Claremont School of Theology, has a review of William Connolly's Why I Am…
Conference: “Secularism in the Late Modern Age”
On January 28-29, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia will host a conference on…
Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moral
At the core of contemporary secularism is the denial of the existence of deities and the supernatural. There is only…
The good, the bad, and the ugly
It is worthwhile to pause and ask why so many educators are committed to the suspension of religious identity in…