The Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London is hosting a one-day conference today…
Secularism and race
secularism
Secularism despite itself
Kile Jones, a Ph.D. student at the Claremont School of Theology, has a review of William Connolly's Why I Am…
Conference: “Secularism in the Late Modern Age”
On January 28-29, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia will host a conference on…
Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moral
At the core of contemporary secularism is the denial of the existence of deities and the supernatural. There is only…
The good, the bad, and the ugly
It is worthwhile to pause and ask why so many educators are committed to the suspension of religious identity in…
Of saints, separatism, and secularization (part 2)
In my previous post, I discussed the ambivalent legacy of the Catholic Church in Québec in light of the recent…
Nothing human is foreign to me
The problem as I see it is not that students in the liberal arts are somehow forbidden to argue their…
Endgame capitalism: An interview with Simon During
Simon During is a professor at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland, having…
Yearning, yawning, and resisting
Three cheers for Kahn et al., on the occasion of their bold ride into the heart of liberal arts territory,…
Thinking otherwise
By insisting that this is all there is, the secularist position forecloses the emergence of anything other than this. Since…