Josef Sorett (Columbia University) introduces a critical exchange centered on his new book, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of…
Spirit in the Dark—An introduction
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Mere Civility and Jeremiah Wright
Reporters who covered the Jeremiah Wright controversy during the 2008 United States presidential campaign would have benefited from reading Mere…
Writing religion for the IPSP
Can we hope for a better society? That is the animating question behind an ambitious project, the International Panel on Social…
The refugee crisis and religion: Beyond physical and conceptual boundaries
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were displaced globally…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…
Call for Comments: Writing religion for the IPSP
Can we hope for a better society? That is the animating question behind an ambitious project, the International Panel on…
Relativism and Religion: An introduction
Politicized religion seems to have a new enemy: Moral relativism is denounced by believers of all stripes as a threat…
On inclusion
In a recent piece in The New York Times’ column The Stone, philosophers Jay L. Garfield and Bryan W. Van…
CFP: Putting Truth in the Second Place: On Compromise, Religion and Politics
As part of the COMPROMISE research project at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen will host an international…
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy
Secularism has many critics in the academy these days, but not all have given up on it. This is made…