Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…
Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
secularism
Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives
In Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives, editor Anders Berg-Sørensen compiles works from leading scholars to provide an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to the…
Secularism and the invention of American evangelicalism
Few books in the field of American religious history has received more attention over the few years than John Modern’s Secularism…
Crisis in Egypt roundup
The public protests and ouster of elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military followed by the appointment of…
CFP: The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred Engagements in Literature and Theory
The Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature will host its annual conference on The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred…
Judge rules yoga not a threat to separation of church and state
A judge in California ruled on Monday that teaching yoga in public schools does not violate the U.S. Constitution's separation…
No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
In their recent publication, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen discuss how religion…
Occupy Gezi, beyond the religious-secular cleavage
The protests in Turkey started on May 27 with a modest resistance movement against the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park…
An excursion through the partitions of Taksim Square
Taksim Meydanı. Partition Square. Although it has taken on potent new resonances in recent days, the name of Istanbul’s throbbing central…
New journal: The Red Egg Review
The Red Egg Review is a new online journal addressing questions of secularism and politics from and Eastern Orthodox perspective