At the Harvard University Press Blog, historian Brad S. Gregory discusses his latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious…
Religious roots of the secular
American history
America’s “faith-friendly secularism”
At the Rethinking Religion blog of Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Joseph Blankholm responds to Denis…
Don’t tread on me
Paul Kahn, in his rereading of Carl Schmitt by way of the American context, seeks to “depersonalize the sovereign.” As…
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
Not for the squeamish
Paul Kahn has written a remarkable meditation on Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology. A truly adequate response would undoubtedly require a…
A historian’s reaction to American Grace
David Campbell's and Robert Putnam's American Grace left me historically puzzled on my first reading, and my second didn't clear things up.…
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
As I argued in my previous post, there are indications that Paul Kahn subscribes to Carl Schmitt’s belief in the…
The geopolitical imperative?
Ritualistic evocations of "America" . . . and the deep-seated sense that somehow the United States is sacrosanct space—war, by…
David Sehat: the moral establishment of American Protestantism
David Sehat talks about his new book, The Myth of American Religious Freedom, in a two-part interview with Paul Harvey…
Three myths of American religious freedom
Writing on the occasion of the National Day of Religious Freedom---observed in the United States on January 16---historian David Sehat,…