Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…
Rethinking secularism
The SSRC at the AAR annual meeting
The SSRC will host two sessions at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, to be held…
Western secularity
We live in a world in which ideas, institutions, artistic styles, and formulas for production and living circulate among societies…
Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism helps to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of…
The new faces of the European far-right
With the ascent of Marine Le Pen to the head of the National Front and her growing popularity in the…
“Burqa Ban” takes effect in France
On April 11th, the hotly debated "burqa ban" went into effect in France.
What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular
The term "postsecular" is quickly becoming a keyword for scholars of religion and public life. So what is it all…
Thinking about revolution, religion, and Egypt with Talal Asad
Reflecting on the consequences of the recent events in Egypt for the theory of religion, Carl Raschke writes that the…
Myths of Mubarak
The term ‘secular’ and its conceptual affiliates are doing a lot of work in misrepresenting the uprising in Egypt. ‘Secular’…
The Hedgehog Review revisits secularism
The fall 2010 issue of The Hedgehog Review addresses the question, "Does religious pluralism require secularism?" Several contributions are freely…