Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often…
liberalism
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland,…
After purification
Christian Moderns stands apart in at least two respects: in method and in conceptualization. Whereas earlier works on liberalism, modernism…
Obama’s service problem
In what has become something of an American tradition, President Barack Obama asked us to rediscover a "spirit of service"…
Whig Calvinism?
I'll close my contribution to this symposium with some broad brush strokes by suggesting that Wolterstorff's project can be seen…
“Call it X”
I am grateful for the kind and thoughtful comments posted at The Immanent Frame about Islam and the Secular State.…
Secular imperatives?
Calls for the embrace (or for that matter rejection) of secularism are premised on a putative opposition between secular and…
Anti-secularist failures
I guess it's to be expected that in today's fashionable anti-secularist perspective an act of secular criticism that calls for…
Remaking the world
Are international relations theorists about to awake from their long secular slumber and discover that the world has had, has,…
Political theology & liberal democracy
The idea of modern liberalism depends decisively on a jettisoning of theology as a source for arguing about politics: If…