Next Thursday, September 23, at 8:00 PM, Bron Taylor will discuss Dark Green Religion: Nature, Spirituality and the Planetary Future at the Open Center in New York City.
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Revisiting Salazar v. Buono
by Charles GelmanWinnifred Fallers Sullivan's recent post "The cross: more than religion?" is cited in a new paper by Mary Dolan, "Salazar v. Buono: The Cross Between Endorsement and History," part of a Northwestern University Law Review colloquy on the Salazar v. Buono decision.
September 15, 2010
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Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
by Jessica PolebaumThe Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is currently fielding applications for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
September 17, 2010
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Secularism a point of pride
by Charles GelmanPaul Cliteur, author of The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism, defends the secularist stance at washingtonpost.com.
September 18, 2010
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Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
by Thomas AlbertsAt the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we asked whether secularism and liberalism in fact always go together, as is often supposed. In our second round of Skype conversations, we began to address this question by discussing a related one: to what degree are liberalism and privatized religion necessary for democracy? This discussion was inspired by our IWM course on “Religion and Democracy,” taught by José Casanova and Marcin Krol, which drew on examples of democratic societies to examine the variety of roles that public religion and liberalism, respectively, play in enhancing or inhibiting democratic life.
September 20, 2010
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Journalism and theology
by Charles GelmanAt The Scoop, Diane Winston sums up and comments on Ross Douthat's recent talk at USC.
September 22, 2010
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Alberto Toscano on fanaticism
by John D. BoyAlberto Toscano, author of the recently published Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea, will be speaking at New York University tomorrow, 5–7pm, on the fifth floor of 20 Cooper Square East. The book has been reviewed in the UK, and Toscano has also appeared in a video interview with The Guardian to speak about his book. Keep your eyes peeled for a review on The Immanent Frame soon.
September 27, 2010
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In Turkey, religious and secular living side by side
by Grace YukichIn many large cities around the world, religious people and secular people tend to live in separate neighborhoods. This has often been the case in Istanbul, where religious and secular differences frequently correspond to differences in class. But in the neighborhood of Fatih, Muslim and secular Turks are living together, though not without conflict, writes Borzou Daragahi in The Los Angeles Times.
September 27, 2010
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“God in America”
by Jessica PolebaumOctober 11, 12, and 13, PBS' FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE will present "God in America," a six-hour series investigating "the potent and complex interaction between religion and democracy, the origins of the American concept of religious liberty, and the controversial evolution of that ideal in the nation's courts and political arena."
September 27, 2010
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Pew poll shows Americans lack religious “knowledge”
by Sam HanA newly published report from the Pew Forum Religion and Public Life shows that Americans seemingly know very little about religious faiths, including their own.
September 28, 2010