John Boy, in a post on March 15th, titled "What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular," provides…
The post-secular: A different account
secularization
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…
“The embourgeoisement of the Islamists”: Olivier Roy on the uprisings
Olivier Roy, writing in the New Statesman, argues that the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa show how…
Church attendance and identity
In an essay on Slate, Shankar Vedantam speculates on why Americans tend to overreport attendance at religious services.
The parting of religion and culture
The New York Times reviews Olivier Roy's Holy Ignorance, now out in English translation.
Of saints, separatism, and secularization (part 1)
Three weeks ago, in a province with the lowest rate of Church attendance in Canada, 50,000 people attended Mass to…
Contending Modernities
On November 18-19, dozens of scholars, religious leaders, business people, and intellectuals will gather in New York for the public launch…
The wisdom of crowds
The majority of Americans may not know much about their own religions, but they seem to have a pretty good…
Two recent journal issues of interest
Recent issues of South Atlantic Quarterly and New German Critique contain articles of interest to scholars of religion and public…
The sounds of science
As previous posts about The New Metaphysicals have illustrated, Courtney Bender’s spiritual but not religious subjects pose a number of…