On July 24, 2013, a “Letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey” was published as an ad in the British…
Beyond religio-secularism: Toward a political critique
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The Charter of Quebec Values
On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
The Charter of Quebec Values in the media: Panic, contempt, and division
The recent media buzz stirred up by a sad story captures well the sense of uneasiness pervading Quebec since the…
The theology blind spot
I have always been puzzled by the fact that Charles Taylor starts his book A Secular Age with a long…
CFP: Secularism and Secularity
It was a successful first year for the Secularism and Secularity Program Unit of the American Academy of Religion, which…
Debating secularities
In H-Soz-u-Kult, Susanne Kimmig-Voelkner reports from the closing conference of the University of Leipzig-based program on "Secularities: Configurations and Developmental…
Secularism and secularity at the AAR
At the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, to be held November 23-26 in Baltimore, a new program unit on “Secularism…
The Communist Party and the future of religion in China
This short essay sketches out the different views that may be identified within the Chinese Communist Party as we look…
Opiate of the masses with Chinese characteristics
Before making projections about the future of religion and secularity in China, we should first take a step back and…
What is religion in China? A brief history
The complex and ever-changing relationship between the Chinese state and the nation’s religions stretches back thousands of years. While the…