Akeel Bilgrami’s paper is very rich; I cannot speak to all its arguments. I focus on his principal concern: his…
Secularism, lexical ordering, and resistance to dialogue
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Secularism and The Third Jihad
At The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton offers insight on the recent controversy surrounding the NYPD's use of The Third Jihad…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
The context of religious pluralism
Akeel Bilgrami's article, “Secularism: Its Content and Context,” is an important and welcome contribution on a topic that has acquired…
Normative or empirical comparisons?
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr confesses that she is not an expert with regard to “the value of normative theory for legal and…
Secularism and Alevism
Writing in The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton raises issues central to secularism as they pertain to Turkey's Alevi, a religious…
Multiple secularities and their normativity as an empirical subject
It is difficult to come to an agreement when normative issues are concerned. Are the “moderate” forms of European secularisms…
Shared sovereignty
On October 21, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe,…
Taking a stance
Akeel Bilgrami’s “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” is both fascinating and wide-ranging... Whether or not one agrees with the notion…
Secularism, belief, and truth
I want to argue that one of the deep reasons for the commonality between religion and the secular is not…