Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…
Cultural models and Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking secularism
One of the earliest discussions on The Immanent Frame taking the conversations around secularism to a new level.
zzEnter the Post-Secular
It was, then, a stirring sight to see Habermas sit down with Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004 for a philosophical dialogue.…
Religion and modern communication
There has been considerable amount of research on how commodification and the Internet are transforming the religious lives of young…
Pussy Riot’s punk prayer
On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian punk collective called Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the…
Was antebellum America secular?
The question “Was Antebellum America Secular?” obviously depends on what one means by secular. Because the term is dialectical by…
Secularization and disenchantment
Over the past decade, scholarly inquiry into contemporary religion has moved from an understanding of religion as waning in the…
Confused parchments, infinite socialities
Ambivalence, avoidance, hedging, delay—these are but some of my responses to Michael Warner’s richly rendered provocation and response to my…
Is absolute secularity conceivable?
Is absolute secularity conceivable? The question arises from the paradoxical intuition that the secularization thesis is simultaneously both right and…
Modernity, enchantment, and Fictionalism
The stern visage of Max Weber looms over discussions of modernity and enchantment, as does the sunnier countenance of Charles…