In H-Soz-u-Kult, Susanne Kimmig-Voelkner reports from the closing conference of the University of Leipzig-based program on "Secularities: Configurations and Developmental…
Debating secularities
secularity
Secularism and secularity at the AAR
At the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, to be held November 23-26 in Baltimore, a new program unit on “Secularism…
The return of sacred history
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is an expansively ambitious work. Indeed, its aim is to provide nothing less than an “explanation…
Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives
In Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives, editor Anders Berg-Sørensen compiles works from leading scholars to provide an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to the…
Secularism and the invention of American evangelicalism
Few books in the field of American religious history has received more attention over the few years than John Modern’s Secularism…
Confused parchments, infinite socialities
Ambivalence, avoidance, hedging, delay—these are but some of my responses to Michael Warner’s richly rendered provocation and response to my…
CFP: Secularism and Secularity
In November we published the proposal for a new American Academy of Religion program unit---Secularism and Secularity.
Secularism and secularity
Our proposal for the creation of a new program unit on “Secularisms and Secularities” within the American Academy of Religion…
Was antebellum America secular?
The question “Was Antebellum America Secular?” obviously depends on what one means by secular. Because the term is dialectical by…
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…