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March 18th, 2010

Radical Orthodoxy’s new home?

posted by Matthew Engelke

This past November, a new think tank called ResPublica was launched in London, in the opulent surrounds of the Royal Horseguards Hotel. It’s not every day that a think tank appears, of course, but even so this one attracted an unusual amount of attention. The meeting room in which the launch took place was overflowing. David Cameron, the Conservative Party Leader, modernizer, and hopeful Prime Minister, provided the opening remarks, and introduced its director, Phillip Blond. In the lead-up to the launch, Blond got prime coverage on television, in the broadsheets, and throughout the blogosphere, building on what had actually been almost a year’s worth of buzz over his rise to the top. ResPublica’s signature approach is what Blond calls “Red Toryism,” which he outlined in the February 2009 issue of Prospect as “the tradition of communitarian civic conservatism,” and about which we’ll soon hear more.

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March 17th, 2010

Orthodox paradox: an interview with John Milbank

posted by Nathan Schneider

March 16th, 2010

New media and the reshaping of religious practice

posted by The Editors

March 15th, 2010

The (really) strong program

posted by Bryan S. Turner

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February 23rd, 2010

Religious freedoms

Since its passage in 1998, the International Religious Freedom Act has sparked intensive debate amongst scholars, policymakers, and members of the international relations community concerning the intentions and effects of the American government’s promotion of religious freedom abroad.  Following the release of “Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy,” a report of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, Scott Appleby, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Allen Hertzke, Michael Barnett, Chris Seiple, and Clifford Bob offer contrasting analyses of a controversial facet of American foreign policy.

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‘Religious nones’ and the politics of American spirituality

Historians, sociologists, and political scientists contribute to an ongoing debate over the degree and significance of the growth of America’s “no religion population.” Featuring posts from Michael Hout and Claude S. Fischer, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Laura R. Olson, Paul Lichterman, and Darren Sherkat.

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The People of ChilmarkReconsidering civil religion

Scholars of religion, sociology, and political theory interrogate Robert Bellah’s 1967 thesis of an “American civil religion,” raising questions and proposing revisions regarding its viability in the contemporary context.

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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West examine the complex entwinement of religion and democratic politics. Edited by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, with an afterword by Craig Calhoun. Forthcoming this fall from Columbia University Press.

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A postsecular world society?

Jürgen Habermas, in conversation with Eduardo Mendieta, discusses his thinking on the place of religion in the modern world and the emergence of a “postsecular consciousness” in the context of today’s multicultural global society.