I want to offer a reflection on two religious developments in contemporary Europe that highlight but also challenge Roy’s account…
Catholicism and European politics: Two new trends
pluralism
“Citizen science,” environmental action, and religious pluralism
I joined Restoring Eden as a participant observer in 2016, soon after they carried out a series of citizen science…
New vistas in studying religion and public life
Taking a relatively “thin” understanding of public religion that challenges—rather than transports—the term’s typical liberal and normative baggage, the essays…
History and theorizing the secular
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Six short reflections contribute to an ongoing conversation about the value of history to any analysis of secularism, religion, and the…
Democracy as a work in progress rather than a work of progress
Let me begin by thanking the contributors to this book forum for their respective reviews. I am enormously grateful for…
A salutary tremor
What logics, strategies, and effects characterize the category of religion as an instrument for governing social life? What possibilities and…
Stuck in the middle with you
Surely this was not how most of its philosophers wanted liberalism or pluralism to turn out: a world in which…
The Charter of Quebec Values
On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
Genre, method, and assumptions
More than 60 reviews of The Unintended Reformation have appeared since January 2012, including forums in four journals (Historically Speaking, Church…
Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law
In his new book, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law, Anver Emon discusses Islamic legal doctrines and their implications for religious diversity…