In the SSRC's Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum, Seyla Benhabib considers the recent and ongoing uprisings in the…
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Panel discussion on Iran’s Green Movement and the upheaval in the Middle East
This Friday, February 25, at 6:00 PM, there will be a panel discussion of the resurgence of the Iranian Green…
Teaching and blogging A Secular Age
James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College, is currently teaching an undergraduate seminar on Charles Taylor's A Secular…
“Does Egypt Need a Pharaoh?”
Political scientists Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz argue, in an article for Project Syndicate, that a democratic transition following the…
Fear for the uprising
SSRC-IDRF fellow Omar Cheta assesses the situation in Egypt.
Religion, elections, and civil society in Egypt
Amid the ongoing upheaval in Egypt, Clifford Bob discusses the U.S. Government perspective on Egypt's future and the possibly---or, rather,…
Secularism despite itself
Kile Jones, a Ph.D. student at the Claremont School of Theology, has a review of William Connolly's Why I Am…
God, money, and power
At Killing the Buddha, John D. Fitzgerald describes the inside of a little-known conservative Christian college in the heart of…
Conference: “Secularism in the Late Modern Age”
On January 28-29, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia will host a conference on…
Words, war, and worldviews
In the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Mark Juergensmeyer, former president of the AAR, weaves together a brief…