One of the things that intellectual historians show us, although often only implicitly, is the fluidity of the terms of…
Antihumanism and religion
Rethinking secularism
Circling the line
I was asked after the 2008 Presidential election to make some loose predictions about the future of conservative political religions…
The belief of or in God?
Recently, there was a brief back and forth at Cif Belief between Michael McGhee and Stephen Clark. The former, a…
Casting away our crutches
The various essays on A Secular Age gathered in Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Craig Calhoun’s Varieties of Secularism in…
The crucifix controversy and the contradictions of German secularism
Last week, the prime minister of Lower Saxony, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), replaced several ministers in…
“Hegemonic Secularism, Dominant Communalism”
In the January issue of Rethinking Marxism (sub. req.), Saroj Giri explores the underlying assumptions that drive the conceptions of…
Lived religion, British-style?
Over at the British weekly The Observer, Peter Stanford reviews Is God Still an Englishman?, the latest from Cole Moreton.
Demography and de-secularization
Profile Books recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, an analysis of the demographic contradictions of modern capitalist societies,…
Secularism and religious co-existence in Lebanon
This weekend, a group of Lebanese citizens will take to the streets of Beirut to participate in a Laïque Pride…
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland,…