Ever since the capture of John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” the media has been on the lookout for…
Rethinking secularism
Sportualism in America
In an article published this week in USA Today, Tom Krattenmaker explores the directed effort by religious groups to infiltrate the wide…
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…
“We Have Never Been Secular: Re-thinking the Sacred”
The New School for Social Research's Department of Sociology will hold its annual graduate student conference, "We Have Never Been…
Is Critique Secular?
At Religion Dispatches, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan reviews Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech, a collection of essays by…
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age will be published this spring by Harvard University Press. Edited by Michael Warner,…
The state of Shari’a in the UK
In The Times, Douglas Murray opines on the foothold Islamic law has gained in British public life and explores how…
“Religious-Secular Distinctions”
On January 14-16 the British Academy will host "Religious-Secular Distinctions," a conference intended take up, from an interdisciplinary set of…
Lapham’s “Religion”
In his preamble to the new "Religion" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis Lapham describes the downfall of traditional religion as…
Swiss minarets and American self-righteousness?
At the Scoop, Courtney Bender analyzes the American media's editorial treatment of the Swiss minaret ban.