The big bang
Peter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution.
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Jonathan VanAntwerpen is director of the program on religion and the public sphere at the Social Science Research Council and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He is co-editor of a handful of recent and forthcoming books on secularism and religion, including Habermas and Religion (Polity, forthcoming), Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Post-secular in Question (NYU Press, forthcoming), 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, founder and editor-in-chief of The Immanent Frame, and executive producer (with Nathan Schneider) of the recently launched Frequencies.
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Secularism in Antebellum America
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.
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Žižek on the future of Egyptian politics
Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics [video].
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
The Egyptian Revolution
Mohammed Bamyeh: “Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prospects gathered momentum so quickly and so unexpectedly.”
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Will the Arab revolutions spread?
Marc Lynch responds to protests across the Arab world.
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Rhetoric and authority
At Notes from the Social Field, Ernesto Castañeda reflects on President Obama’s rhetorical performance in the aftermath of the shootings in Tucson.
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
All Things Shining
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.
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Humanity
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.
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Muffling the conflict
Stanley Fish on John Milbank’s contribution to “Shari’a in the West”.
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
God, science and philanthropy
Nathan Schneider profiles John Templeton and the Foundation he built, in The Nation.
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