In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
Religion and state secularization
Charles Taylor
Secularism, belief, and truth
I want to argue that one of the deep reasons for the commonality between religion and the secular is not…
Religion-making
Broadly conceived the term religion-making refers to the ways in which religion(s) is conceptualized and institutionalized within the matrix of…
The shining and the shiny: An interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly
Sean Dorrance Kelly is chair of Harvard University’s philosophy department and has published on topics like cognitive science, philosophy of…
Secularism: Its content and context
I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want to make something of them at…
9/11 chronomania
Under its congressional mandate to “examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist attacks…[and] make a…
Is sovereignty necessarily theological?
Paul Kahn's task, he says, is to describe and interpret, rather than demystify, America’s political theology. That political theology, he…
Oppenheimer: the politics of authenticity?
Mark Oppenheimer discusses Charles Taylor's work and its reception in a wide-ranging essay in The Nation.
Is there anybody out there? (Pink Floyd and Charles Taylor)
In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Hartmut Rosa hears the echoes of Pink Floyd in the work of Charles Taylor.
Religion und Öffentlichkeit
The German translation, by Michael Adrian, of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere will be published by Suhrkamp…