In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…
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Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is co-sponsoring a conference later this week on "credulity."
Genealogy and plurality
Simon During’s essay begins with a taxonomy that is harmlessly at odds with my own classification. He uses the term…
The possibilities of history
Colin Jager projects the virtues of his own reading of me onto my essay when he describes it as possessed…
Secularism: Some concepts and distinctions
I am very grateful to the many commentators on my essay “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” for their instructive and…
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…
The importance of place
In Joseph Blankholm’s recent post, he wonders how to begin to understand (or even locate) the atheism of people who…