In The New Republic, Isaac Chotiner reviews Stefan Collini's latest book, which asks what it means to give offense and…
Stefan Collini on offense
public sphere
Religion’s many powers
To say that religion has power in the public sphere is not to say that it can be easily absorbed…
El poder de la religión
El poder de la religión en la esfera pública, the Spanish language edition of The Power of Religion in the…
Religion and the emerging transnational Arab public
In the SSRC's Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum, Seyla Benhabib considers the recent and ongoing uprisings in the…
States of Devotion, a brand new blog
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU has recently launched States of Devotion, a trilingual blog serving as…
Space and resistance
It is illuminating to ponder the recent events in Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir as we try to understand the relationship between…
Call for papers: Spirituality, political engagement, and public life
The SSRC Working Group on Spritituality, Political Engagement & Public Life is inviting submissions of abstracts for a conference to…
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
At the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we…
Google, God, and the public
Google's attempt to bring its Street View service to Germany has met with strong opposition. Given the country's history, the…
Separating public space
Concluding a class trip to the Supreme Court, Maureen Rigo and her class from Wickenburg Christian Academy, Wickenburg, AZ, stopped…