Pitzer College having announced that it will offer a major in "secular studies," the Harvard University Press Blog compiles a…
Crafting the secular studies syllabus
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Pitzer College to add “secular studies” major
Thanks to the efforts of sociologist Phil Zuckerman, this fall Pitzer College in California will become the first undergraduate institution…
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most…
New tensions in Egypt
Michael Slackman has a fairly extensive article in The New York Times on the Muslim Brotherhood's apparent consolidation of power…
A review of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Abraham Rubin reviews Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age at the blog of the Center for Jewish Law and…
A review of Paul Cliteur’s The Secular Outlook
J. Caleb Clanton reviews Paul Cliteur's The Secular Outlook, which aims "to show how religious believers and unbelievers can live…
Post-secular development
For most of the second half of the twentieth century development was assumed to be consonant with modernity and its…
A Muslim revolution in Egypt
News organizations reporting on Egypt in the last two and half weeks have repeatedly raised the specter of the Muslim…
Islam and the compulsion of the political
Invariably, contemporary discussions of Islam seem to begin and end with the relationship between Islam and politics—both anti-Islamic pundits and…
The power of a new political imagination
The Tunisian revolution, as a revolution of ordinary people, inspired the demonstrations in Egypt, leading to Mubarak’s fall. It has…