In my previous post, I discussed the ambivalent legacy of the Catholic Church in Québec in light of the recent…
secularism
Nothing human is foreign to me
The problem as I see it is not that students in the liberal arts are somehow forbidden to argue their…
Endgame capitalism: An interview with Simon During
Simon During is a professor at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland, having…
Yearning, yawning, and resisting
Three cheers for Kahn et al., on the occasion of their bold ride into the heart of liberal arts territory,…
Thinking otherwise
By insisting that this is all there is, the secularist position forecloses the emergence of anything other than this. Since…
Shari’a, Family, and Democracy
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, M. Christian Green, and John Witte, Jr., principal investigators of an SSRC-funded project "Shari'a, Family, and Democracy…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…
Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts
Between 2006-2009, with the support of the Teagle Foundation, four self-identifying secular liberal arts campuses—Bucknell University and Macalester, Vassar, and…
Is there a secular body?
Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities,…
Landmarks in the critical study of secularism
In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science…