I have always been puzzled by the fact that Charles Taylor starts his book A Secular Age with a long…
The theology blind spot
John Rawls
Beyond supersessionist stories?
Brad Gregory’s monumental and erudite book has yielded a wide range of reactions. Highly appreciative remarks (especially from the Catholic…
Hope, tragedy, and prophecy
It is hard not to be convinced by Akeel Bilgrami’s careful, patient, and generous exposition in “Secularism: Its Content and…
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…
Secularism: Its content and context
I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want to make something of them at…
An empirical perspective on religious and secular reasons
This “religion in the public sphere” thread has featured debates about whether citizens of liberal democratic societies can offer religious…
Arguing with An-Na`im
What is interesting about An-Na`im's arguments is that they ground the case for the secular state not in the Quran,…
Nothing special about religion
It is clear from the ongoing discussion about "Religion in the public sphere" that we live in an age when…
An Islamic case for a secular state
If the state is going to enforce any principle from Islamic sources, according to Abdullahi An-Na‘im, then it should implement…
Secularism and critique
What are we to think of the idea, entertained by Rawls for a time, that one can legitimately ask of…