Writing in The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton raises issues central to secularism as they pertain to Turkey's Alevi, a religious…
Secularism and Alevism
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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…
Religion-making
Broadly conceived the term religion-making refers to the ways in which religion(s) is conceptualized and institutionalized within the matrix of…
Tony Judt on Religion in America
In addition to an excerpt from the introduction to Denis Lacorne's Religion in America, as well as Joseph Blankholm's response…
Secularism: Its content and context
I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want to make something of them at…
Going to law
Last week, in the first week of its October 2011 term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a suit…
America’s “faith-friendly secularism”
At the Rethinking Religion blog of Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Joseph Blankholm responds to Denis…