"During their meeting, the Holy Father and the President discussed a number of topics of common interest to the Holy…
Bush, Benedict, and freedom as God’s gift
human rights
Religious reasons & secular revelations
That Jürgen Habermas and I probably agree on most fundamental issues does not mean that there are no differences between…
Constitutional patriotism
Robert Bellah’s latest post poses clearly the issues that we’ve been agonizing over in Canada, and in a different way…
What holds us together
In his response to my concern about whether “post-Durkheimian” is a viable category, Charles Taylor goes part way in answering…
Religions and the postnational constellation
Granted that there is a global economy, global culture, global law, global civil society, even global festivals, why are global…
The fragility of global solidarity
In my last post, I suggested that the religious communities of the world may have something to contribute to the…
Is a global civil religion possible?
In my essay “Civil Religion in America,” first published in Daedalus in 1967, exactly forty years ago---which, unfortunately, quite a…
Human rights in a secular age?
The theme of loss is...a deep undercurrent in Taylor’s account. One question that those of us working in the area…