http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:33:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/09/08/rethinking-secularism-and-religion-in-the-global-age/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/09/08/rethinking-secularism-and-religion-in-the-global-age/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:53:53 +0000 Mark Juergensmeyer http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=2226 Last September, I sat down at UC-Berkeley with the eminent sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah, for a discussion about religious evolution, the ideas of religion and secularism, the rise of extreme positions associated with both of those terms, and the future of universalistic faiths in an emerging global civil society. The following is an excerpt from our discussion, a full transcript of which is available here (PDF).]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/09/08/rethinking-secularism-and-religion-in-the-global-age/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/05/a-man-with-a-mission/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/05/a-man-with-a-mission/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 14:49:01 +0000 Mark Juergensmeyer http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=239 Abdullahi An-Na'im is a man with a mission. As the expatriate Sudanese law professor told The New Yorker writer George Packer in a recent article, his new book on Islam and the Secular State was written as "a work of advocacy more than of scholarship." But as an advocate to whom? [...]]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/05/a-man-with-a-mission/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/29/the-death-of-secular-democracy-in-pakistan/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/29/the-death-of-secular-democracy-in-pakistan/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:00:33 +0000 Mark Juergensmeyer http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/29/the-death-of-secular-democracy-in-pakistan/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2007/12/29/the-death-of-secular-democracy-in-pakistan/feed/ 1