Over at Boston Review, Princeton political scientist Jan-Werner Müller has written a lengthy article considering the rise of Christian (Catholic)…
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“Leadership and Leitkultur”
In The New York Times, Jürgen Habermas discusses the current political situation in Germany and the general challenge to liberal…
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
At the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we…
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
Since our previous dispatch from the IWM Summer School in Cortona, we have settled back into our real lives in…
HI governor vetoes civil unions bill
Citing her belief that the debate over civil unions should settled by referendum and not through the state legislature, Hawaii…
U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo
The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy will hold it's 11th annual conference this Wednesday, April 28, on "U.S.…
Case studies in religion and democracy
In The New York Times, Peter Beinart reviews Ian Buruma's Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
Religion and the civic imagination
Since the publication of Robert Bellah’s 1967 article “Civil Religion in America,” discussions of the topic have tended to devolve…
Can Islam in Europe be tamed?
At Bookforum, David Wallace-Wells reviews Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma.
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
The United States is an empire in decline, as well as a nation under enormous economic duress, and civil religion…