Nadia Urbinati

Nadia Urbinati is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. Among others she has authored Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University Of Chicago 2006; rep. 2008) and co-edited, with Steven Lukes, Condorcet's Political Writings (Cambridge University 2012); her last Italian book on a democratic critique of the ideology of individualism is under translation by Yale University Press.

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Thursday, January 26th, 2012

The context of religious pluralism

Akeel Bilgrami’s article, “Secularism: Its Content and Context,” is an important and welcome contribution on a topic that has acquired momentum with the renaissance of the public role of religions, in democratic and non-democratic societies alike. Bilgrami clarifies in a penetrating and lucid way, three fundamental ideas on secularism: first, that it is “a stance to be taken about religion”; second, that it is not an indication of the form of government or the liberal nature of a regime; and third, that the context is a crucial factor in issues concerning the relationship between politics and religion.

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