More than most other great systematic thinkers of our time, Jürgen Habermas has for decades consistently expressed his views on…
Anti-secularism
Book reviews
These original essays are based on a recent book, written by someone other than the author.
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
The last decade has witnessed a veritable scholarly obsession with the subject of political theology: a multifaceted concept with varying…
Blood: A Critique of Christianity
The starting point for Gil Anidjar’s ambitious and daring new book, Blood: A Critique of Christianity, is that modern concepts…
Faith as an Option
Hans Joas’s Faith as an Option is primarily concerned with debunking two myths: first, the idea that modernization—advances in technology…
The Devil: A New Biography
A great deal of ink was spilled in the medieval and early modern period on the nature of demonic copulation.…
Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality
Do Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with…
For God and Globe
In 1937, some of the most prominent and influential Protestant leaders in the United States travelled to Oxford for a…
Invisible Hands
Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman’s Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century presents a fascinating exploration of the proliferating logics…
Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power
The United States is unique among nations in claiming a heritage of religious freedom and a mission to spread it…
Race and Secularism in America
On September 13, 2016, Clemson University’s head football coach Dabo Swinney was asked what he would do if one of…