Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is an expansively ambitious work. Indeed, its aim is to provide nothing less than an “explanation…
The return of sacred history
secularity
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…
After the secular age
Just out from Verso Press, Simon Critchley's The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology investigates the role of religion in…
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network launches website
The Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) recently launched its new website.