Jonathan VanAntwerpen is founder and editor-in-chief of The Immanent Frame and director of communications at the Social Science Research Council, where he also directs the program on religion and the public sphere. He is co-editor of a series of books on secularism, religion, and public life, including Habermas and Religion (Polity, forthcoming), Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Post-secular in Question (NYU Press, 2012), The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011), and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2010). VanAntwerpen has also written on higher education (with David L. Kirp), on the history of sociology (with Craig Calhoun and Troy Duster), and on globalization, philanthropy, and the politics of reconciliation. He is co-editor (with Michael Burawoy) of Producing Public Sociology: Contributions from Berkeley Faculty, and executive producer (with Nathan Schneider) of Frequencies. A visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge, he received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University is co-sponsoring a conference later this week on “credulity.”
Read the rest of Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the 19th-Century U.S..Our proposal for the creation of a new program unit on “Secularisms and Secularities” within the American Academy of Religion (AAR) seeks to promote and enable more sustained interdisciplinary engagement among scholars of secularism and secularity and those researchers whose work has focused on variously conceived forms of “non-religion.”
Read the rest of Secularism and secularity.Peter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution.
Read the rest of The big bang.Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a “pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America” by John Lardas Modern, contributing editor at The Immanent Frame and co-curator (with Kathryn Lofton) of the recently launched Frequencies.
Read the rest of Secularism in Antebellum America.Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics [video].
Read the rest of Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Žižek on the future of Egyptian politics.Mohammed Bamyeh: “Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prospects gathered momentum so quickly and so unexpectedly.”
Read the rest of The Egyptian Revolution.Marc Lynch responds to protests across the Arab world.
Read the rest of Will the Arab revolutions spread?.At Notes from the Social Field, Ernesto Castañeda reflects on President Obama’s rhetorical performance in the aftermath of the shootings in Tucson.
Read the rest of Rhetoric and authority.Susan Neiman reviews All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, by philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly.
Read the rest of All Things Shining.From the opening statement of the editorial collective of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development:, published by University of Pennsylvania Press, and edited by Samuel Moyn and Nicolas Guilhot.
Read the rest of Humanity.
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