What is enchantment?

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Earlier this week, Charles Taylor was presented with the Kyoto Prize, often referred to as the “Japanese Nobel.” Next week, Taylor will be at Columbia University to deliver two talks co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Committee on Global Thought and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.

What is Enchantment?
Monday, 17 November 2008, 8:00 pm
1501 International Affairs Building

The Secular Age in a Global Context
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 6:15 pm
1501 International Affairs Building

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is program director for theology at the Henry Luce Foundation. Originally trained as a philosopher, he received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of a series of books on secularism, religion, and public life, including Habermas and Religion (Polity, 2013), Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Post-Secular in Question (NYU Press, 2012), The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011), and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2010). VanAntwerpen was the founding director of the SSRC's program on religion and the public sphere, and in 2007 he worked with others to launch The Immanent Frame, serving for several years as editor-in-chief.

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