In the latest issue of Studies in Social Justice, an open-access e-journal, Ada S. Jaarsma addresses the "post-secular turn" in feminism with…
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Losing faith in peace
In the latest issue of Foreign Policy, Aaron David Miller, a long-time State Department official and advisor to six secretaries…
What Taylor misses
The heft of a book would seem proportional to its exhaustiveness. It is no surprise that Charles Taylor's A Secular…
The crucifix controversy and the contradictions of German secularism
Last week, the prime minister of Lower Saxony, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), replaced several ministers in…
A right to home-school?
At Miller-McCune, Michael Scott Moore reports on a German family that was granted asylum by a federal immigration judge in…
Demography and de-secularization
Profile Books recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, an analysis of the demographic contradictions of modern capitalist societies,…
Symposium: The Traffic in Policy
This Friday, April 30, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University will hold a day-long symposium…
Secularism and religious co-existence in Lebanon
This weekend, a group of Lebanese citizens will take to the streets of Beirut to participate in a Laïque Pride…
Religion and violence in the early church
The ever prolific American historian Philip Jenkins recently published yet another book, The Jesus Wars, which deals with the issue…
The Kenyan constitution and the failure of Pan-African theology
In The Zeleza Post, Wandia Njoya comments on the upcoming referendum on a new constitution in Kenya, where the Christian…