The intersection of religion and politics has been a key focus of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Program on…
Religion, democracy, and Christian nationalism
pluralism
Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law
Around the world today, and especially in Euro-Atlantic contexts, we often hear the thesis that a resurgence of religion as…
Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies
The glittering and hurting days are almost done Then let us compare mythologies I have learned my elaborate lie of…
Catholicism and European politics: Two new trends
I want to offer a reflection on two religious developments in contemporary Europe that highlight but also challenge Roy’s account…
“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…