The most recent edition of Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH) focuses on questions of secularity and secularism in…
Rethinking secularism
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
At a March 2010 conference, “Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular” (sponsored by Arizona…
“Rethinking secularism,” but in German
The latest issue of Transit, the Austrian journal of European affairs, takes as its theme and thrust "Säkularismus neu denken"…
Initial thoughts from the IWM summer school
In between my research trips to Senegal and the Philippines, I will be staying in Cortona, Italy, for a two-week summer…
Salvation, semantics, and what secularization has to do with it
n his most recent contribution to The Immanent Frame, "Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at…
Secularism by eschatology, deferred
It’s hard to say how Hans Blumenberg would have responded to recent data troubling the secularization thesis other than to…
Debating secularization
In his earlier post, Vincent Pecora suggests an “unfinished project” approach to secularization. He also hints that the difference between secularization…
Sex, scandal, and the secular
When it comes to the Catholic Church these days, news headlines offer few opportunities for levity. I’m referring, of course,…
Notes from the field
Over the course of the next three months, a small group of SSRC graduate student fellows associated with “After Secularization”—a…
Confessions of a casual Löwithian
What is secularization? This question raises the issue of what exactly religion and “the secular” are---terms that, as our discussions…