I wondered how long it would take DPDF participants to undo what I thought I had carefully assembled in my opening post on…
Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at all
Rethinking secularism
One of the earliest discussions on The Immanent Frame taking the conversations around secularism to a new level.
Something more mundane
Pondering a bit the posts so far in Notes from the field---those focused on the theoretical side of the secularization…
A brief note on teleology
I think Jonathan Sheehan points to something quite useful in his last post: the need for a discourse that does…
Comparing the incommensurate
David Buckley's recent post in Notes from the field raises a crucial methodological question. On what basis is comparative work…
Landmarks in the critical study of secularism
In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science…
Is there a secular body?
Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities,…
Western secularity
We live in a world in which ideas, institutions, artistic styles, and formulas for production and living circulate among societies…
Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe?
Even quite sober academics speak of "a contemporary crisis of secularism," claiming that "today, political secularisms are in crisis in…
A suspension of (dis)belief
Most academic discussions in political science and international relations presuppose a fixed definition of the secular and the religious and…
Beyond moderate secularism
For Modood, moderate secularism can and should go on more or less as it is, but, in order to accommodate…