The Rimini Meeting is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteers. Everything from the physical construction and take-down of the arena,…
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sociology of religion
Sociology of Religion Study Group Annual Conference
August 12, 2011
SOCREL, the British Sociological Association's study group on Religion, is now accepting abstract submissions for its 2012 annual conference. The conference…
Understanding resacralization (part 1)
August 9, 2011
Dominant accounts of the religion-modernity relationship, at least among sociologists of religion in the US, have tended to focus mainly…
What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular
March 15, 2011
The term "postsecular" is quickly becoming a keyword for scholars of religion and public life. So what is it all…
The parting of religion and culture
December 25, 2010
The New York Times reviews Olivier Roy's Holy Ignorance, now out in English translation.
College Professors not as non-religious as one would think
April 12, 2010
Sociology of Religion has just published a study by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons on US professors' belief in God.…
After Durkheim
November 23, 2007
I continue, as I reread it, to have the highest opinion of A Secular Age and to believe that it…