I was so glad for a book that systematically discarded the American “separation of church and state” paradigm, which despite…
Imagining community
secularism
Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
[I]t bears emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church itself is complicit in ensuring Christianity’s disappearance in Europe, even more fundamentally…
Is Europe (still) white?
But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…
On the night of the Notre-Dame fire
Is Christianity still a foundational element of European identity? How could Christian heritage contribute to revive the European project?
Are societies religious? (Or is there a better question?)
As I read Roy, he reserves a place for a religion that is not admixed with other types of things,…
Social activism and rooted liberationist religion in Brazil
Religious leftists in Brazil—of all faiths, with Catholics most prominent among them—already lean on established institutions in combination with the…
Practices of relation: Fernando and Harding
In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on…
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…
Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others
In this forum prompted by Emily Ogden’s Credulity, Susan Lepselter’s The Resonance of Unseen Things, Pamela Klassen’s The Story of…
Revelations in method
Uncanny or rational, spiritual or empirical, the genesis of thinking cannot be pinned down.