The week after the massacre, Charlie Hebdo’s “All is forgiven" issue featured a cover depicting the prophet Muhammad in tears, holding a…
Mark Juergensmeyer
Mark Juergensmeyer is director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State (University of California Press 2008) and the widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, revised edition 2003). Juergensmeyer is coeditor of Rethinking Secularism, an SSRC volume published by Oxford University Press.
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A travelogue of ideas
February 28, 2012
In a special session at the meetings of the American Academy of Religion on November 20, 2011, Robert Bellah discussed…
Rethinking secularism and religion in the global age
September 8, 2009
Last September, I sat down at UC-Berkeley with the eminent sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah, for a discussion about religious…
Reversal in the case of Tariq Ramadan
July 20, 2009
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…