The Modern Spirit of Asia is a book about India and China and the ways in which they have been…
Comparing China and India
religion
Narratives of the Egyptian constitution
In The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh argues that the assumption that religion is inherently authoritarian, divisive, and predisposed to irrational…
Theorizing religion in modern Europe
On March 7-8, 2014, Harvard University will be hosting an international conference entitled "Theorizing Religion in Modern Europe."
The theology blind spot
I have always been puzzled by the fact that Charles Taylor starts his book A Secular Age with a long…
CFP: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the 20th Century United States
Editors Gillian Frank (Stony Brook University), Heather White (New College of Florida), and Bethany Moreton (University of Georgia) have issued…
CFP: Why Study Religion?
Illinois State University Philosophy and Religious Studies Department has announced a call for papers for the upcoming conference on religion in higher…
No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
In their recent publication, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen discuss how religion…
Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs
A central source of support for the Social Science Research Council’s program on religion and the public sphere (including ongoing support…
Scientology not a religion?
According to a recent poll by 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair, a majority of Americans do not believe that Scientology is a…
The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
At the end of August, the two of us joined approximately 30 scholars from around the world in Antwerp, Belgium…