It was, then, a stirring sight to see Habermas sit down with Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004 for a philosophical dialogue.…
Enter the Post-Secular
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The possibilities of history
Colin Jager projects the virtues of his own reading of me onto my essay when he describes it as possessed…
Secularism: Some concepts and distinctions
I am very grateful to the many commentators on my essay “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” for their instructive and…
Paul Froese featured in New Voices
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) recently featured Paul Froese in their New Voices section, which recognizes leading scholars in…
Blurring the boundaries
Four guided missiles packed with explosive material hurtled into the morning sky. Though the day was brilliant blue and cloudless,…
Whose Yoga?
NPR's Margot Adler reports on the current popularity of yoga in the United States, and its disassociation with Hinduism. She…
Varieties of religious freedom and governance
As Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s and Saba Mahmood’s earlier contributions to this discussion remind us, the received wisdom in Western policy…
The power of pluralist thinking
It is hard to remember, but religious pluralism meant something quite different fifty years ago. We have, I would argue,…
CFP: “Radical Secularization?”
September 20-22, 2012, Universiteit Antwerpen will host a conference on secularization theory.
Cultural models and Rethinking Secularism
Rethinking Secularism is the title of a striking new collection of essays, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan…