Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe? Is Tariq Modood’s “moderate secularism” the solution, or should we go…
Beyond secularisms of all sorts
Rethinking secularism
One of the earliest discussions on The Immanent Frame taking the conversations around secularism to a new level.
Going to law
Last week, in the first week of its October 2011 term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a suit…
Are religious institutions entitled to disobey the law?
One recurring justification for the ministerial exception has been the “problem” of women priests. The specter of the Roman Catholic…
Religion-making
Broadly conceived the term religion-making refers to the ways in which religion(s) is conceptualized and institutionalized within the matrix of…
What’s the supreme question in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC?
From its beginnings as an assemblage of mid-nineteenth century immigrants from Germany, formally organized in 1847, the LCMS has affirmed…
The resurgence of the civic
Occupy Wall Street and cognate groups around the world are part of a protest movement that is both global and…
Multiple secularities and their normativity as an empirical subject
It is difficult to come to an agreement when normative issues are concerned. Are the “moderate” forms of European secularisms…
Normative or empirical comparisons?
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr confesses that she is not an expert with regard to “the value of normative theory for legal and…
Religious freedom defeats secular law
Secular law lost unanimously in the Supreme Court of the United States last week. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…
“The Church”
The last sentence of the Court’s opinion in Hosanna-Tabor announces the dogma that binds the majority opinion. Affirming for the…