Last month, Eurochurch.net published a report on the state of missional church-planting activities in Europe authored by Darrell Jackson and…
secularization
Globalization and secularization
In the latest issue of the European Journal of Sociology, José Casanova reviews two recent works by eminent British sociologists:…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
“De-baptism”
While religiosity has been on the decline in Europe for several years, some Europeans are taking more radical steps in…
What should we now do differently?
No one reading this seven hundred page book can fail to be impressed with the sweep of its argument or…
Secularism: Its content and context
I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want to make something of them at…
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
As I argued in my previous post, there are indications that Paul Kahn subscribes to Carl Schmitt’s belief in the…
Western secularity
We live in a world in which ideas, institutions, artistic styles, and formulas for production and living circulate among societies…
The rise and fall of Christian rock
Meghan O'Gieblyn, writing for Guernica, forays into the history of CCM, or Christian contemporary music, which also happens to be…
Roy reviewed
Daniel Mahoney, author of The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order, reviewed Olivier Roy's Holy Ignorance in yesterday's Wall Street…