Calls for the embrace (or for that matter rejection) of secularism are premised on a putative opposition between secular and…
Secular imperatives?
seculars
Varieties of anti-religious imagination
The publication of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age has fostered an exceptionally vibrant intellectual debate on secularism and on the…
The politics of secularism in international relations
A survey of leading contemporary international relations (IR) journals published between 1980 and 1996 revealed that 6 out of 1,600…
Varieties of secularism in a secular age
On April 4-5, the SSRC will co-sponsor a conference at Yale University on Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age.…
The burden of the great divide
With the prevalence of voices casting doubts and aspersions on the so-called secularization thesis, we might imagine that the familiar…
A case of heteronomous thinking
As a story, A Secular Age rivals Hans Blumenberg’s The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (which curiously it ignores) and…
The missing all
Although technology may not possess a logic of its own, one would be hard pressed to deny its formative role…
The scope and uses of secularity
Early in Charles Taylor’s study, he remarks that the secular condition, in which belief is an option and religion a…
Secularization ain’t dead yet
Normally, when one sits down to read a book hailed by a figure such as Robert Bellah as “one of…
Problems around the secular
One great problem is that the term “secular” is a western term, and corresponds to a very old distinction within…