There is no doubt that anthropology needs new approaches for understanding dramatic change, a new way of figuring the relationship…
Falling on the sword of the spirit
political theory
Secularism despite itself
Kile Jones, a Ph.D. student at the Claremont School of Theology, has a review of William Connolly's Why I Am…
Video: Claude Lefort memorial talks
Video of the talks from the Intellectual and Political Memorial for Claude Lefort is now available from Constellations.
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…
The Hedgehog Review revisits secularism
The fall 2010 issue of The Hedgehog Review addresses the question, "Does religious pluralism require secularism?" Several contributions are freely…
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…
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…
Civil earth religion versus religious nationalism
My contribution to these discussions seeks to expand the analytical horizon of the foregoing discussion of civil religion both chronologically…
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona…
Sovereignty and sacrifice in American politics
In The Utopian, Yale Law professor Paul W. Kahn argues that the discourse and imaginary of secular political theory fail…