Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so)…
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism helps to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of…
Habermas and Religion
Edited by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Habermas and Religion presents a series of original and sustained engagements…
Religion and development: “from AIDS to zebras”
Katherine Marshall, co-chair of the SSRC's Project on Religion and International Affairs, speaks of her tenure at the World Bank,…
Commemorative TIF bookmarks
Free to the first 100 readers who respond by email: a stack of bookmarks commemorating The Immanent Frame's first 100…
Notes from the field
Over the course of the next three months, a small group of SSRC graduate student fellows associated with “After Secularization”—a…
“Haiti: Can Catastrophe Spur Progress?”—live stream at 12:30pm
Tune in at 12:30pm (EDT) today to "Haiti: Can Catastrophe Spur Progress," a talk by SSRC Program Director of the…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, due out spring 2011 from Columbia University Press and the SSRC,…
Rethinking secularism: The power of religion in the public sphere
On October 22, 2009, over 1000 people gathered in the vast and venerable Great Hall at New York City's Cooper…
Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation
In a recent symposium held by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the…