The latest issue of Transit, the Austrian journal of European affairs, takes as its theme and thrust "Säkularismus neu denken"…
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“The Origins of the Modern Public”
CBC Radio's daily program Ideas, hosted by Paul Kennedy, has run an extensive (14-part) series on "The Origins of the…
“Women, Religion, and Peace”
The United States Institute of Peace, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and the World Faiths Development…
CFP: “Islam and Religious Norms in the Public Sphere”
The iGov-Institutions and Governance Program of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University…
“The Lady Twilight”
Over at Killing the Buddha, William Dalrymple is excerpting his new book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in…
The dangers of spirituality?
CNN profiles the growing "spiritual but not religious" population, contrasting the views of some who fear that the spiritual turn…
The continuing plight of American Muslims
Kevin Drum is duly indignant about the case of Yahya Wehelie, a U.S. citizen placed on the no-fly list and…
Hegel in the heartland
In The New York Times, J.M. Bernstein holds forth on the metaphysical dimensions of the sustained paroxysm known as the…
The Immanent Frame’s new format
As some readers may have noticed, we're presently in the process of shifting to a new format for presenting our…
Stephen Prothero on inter-religious difference
Garrett Baer interviews Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World---and Why…