British think tank Demos has recently released a new report, written by Jonathan Birdwell and Mark Littler, entitled "Faithful Citizens." The…
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Missions and church-planting in Europe
Last month, Eurochurch.net published a report on the state of missional church-planting activities in Europe authored by Darrell Jackson and…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
“De-baptism”
While religiosity has been on the decline in Europe for several years, some Europeans are taking more radical steps in…
A coherent integration policy for Europe
In the New York Times opinion pages, Boston College political science professor Jonathan Laurence argues that it's up to---and in…
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…
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…
Taking a stance
Akeel Bilgrami’s “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” is both fascinating and wide-ranging... Whether or not one agrees with the notion…
Beyond secularisms of all sorts
Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe? Is Tariq Modood’s “moderate secularism” the solution, or should we go…
Beyond moderate secularism
For Modood, moderate secularism can and should go on more or less as it is, but, in order to accommodate…