Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities,…
Is there a secular body?
philosophy
Terry Eagleton, New Atheism, and the War on Terror
Last Wednesday evening, eminent theorist of literature and culture Terry Eagleton gave a talk at Columbia University entitled "The New…
Landmarks in the critical study of secularism
In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science…
Religion as a catalyst of rationalization
The centrality of religion to social theory in general and philosophy in particular explains why Jürgen Habermas has dealt with…
Habermas and Religion
Edited by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Habermas and Religion presents a series of original and sustained engagements…
An intellectual and political memorial for Claude Lefort, tomorrow at the New School
In memory of philosopher and political theorist Claude Lefort, who died on October 3, Constellations and the New School will…
Secularism and atheism: a discussion at the Institute for Advanced Study
Stefanos Geroulanos’s An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought---the subject of an ongoing forum here at The…
Virtual Christianity
Whether this issue of South Atlantic Quarterly succeeds or fails, it will do so on the basis of its core…
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
Colin Jager’s reading of the British romantics places them at the center of debates about religion, secularism, and pluralism today.…
Christianity and its others
In the nineteenth century the new disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities were ‘emancipated’ from Christian theology. To…