[Pope] Francis repeatedly emphasizes that ideas and realities must be in continuous dialogue. This is a refreshing and ever-timely affirmation…
Pope Francis and intellectual humility
Jürgen Habermas
A cautious rapprochement: Habermas and Taylor on translation and articulacy
In the past ten to fifteen years, discussions around the contested role of religion in the political public sphere have…
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
Faith as an Option
Hans Joas’s Faith as an Option is primarily concerned with debunking two myths: first, the idea that modernization—advances in technology…
The theology blind spot
I have always been puzzled by the fact that Charles Taylor starts his book A Secular Age with a long…
CFP: Post-Secularism Between Public Reason and Political Theology
Guest Editors Camil Ungureanu and Lasse Thomassen are requesting submissions for a special issue of the journal The European Legacy…
The view from Berlin: An interview with Hubert Knoblauch
Hubert Knoblauch is a professor of sociology at the Technical University of Berlin, where he specializes in general sociological theory,…
Enter the Post-Secular
It was, then, a stirring sight to see Habermas sit down with Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004 for a philosophical dialogue.…
The context of religious pluralism
Akeel Bilgrami's article, “Secularism: Its Content and Context,” is an important and welcome contribution on a topic that has acquired…
What are the uses of religion?
Raising issues central to post-secularism, Ryan Gillespie reviews three distinct recent works---Steven D. Smith's The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse, Terry…