The Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge is accepting applications for six…
Postdoc fellowship: The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture
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Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics
Conventional wisdom has it that religious liberty is a universally valid principle, enshrined in national constitutions and international charters 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…
Tony Judt on Religion in America
In addition to an excerpt from the introduction to Denis Lacorne's Religion in America, as well as Joseph Blankholm's response…
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…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…
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…
A fairy tale cathedral
The Assumption of the Virgin does not just mark Mary's ascent to heaven but an annual pilgrimage to one of…
Western secularity
We live in a world in which ideas, institutions, artistic styles, and formulas for production and living circulate among societies…
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City…