For the eighteen days that tens of thousands of Egyptians were rallying to push strongman Hosni Mubarak ever closer to…
Egyptian revolution round-up
religion
“When Religion Is Not a Choice”
At the Martin Marty Center's Religion and Culture Web Forum, Slavica Jakelić shares a chapter from her Collectivistic Religions: Religions,…
Secular representations of religion on Turkish television
Television broadcasting has played a significant role in the creation of a public governed by norms of secular reason in…
Religion is a syncretism (and that’s okay)
There is something very liberating about Jonathan Sheehan’s call for moving orthogonally into the mundanities of everyday research, even though…
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…
The Politics of Religion
On April 16-17, 2010, Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York is hosting an international conference on The…
A postsecular world society?: An interview with Jürgen Habermas
"We should not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The debate over the sociological thesis of secularization has led…
GO big reD!
In the New York Times, Robbie Brown reports on a local debate in Georgia over the appropriateness of cheerleaders using…
Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor: If the human relation to religion and to God is not as shallow as the mainstream theory thinks,…
Mind sciences and religious change in America
Like others in this discussion, I'm not sure that recent neurological studies will dramatically change contemporary religious belief or practice,…