Muffling the conflict
Stanley Fish on John Milbank’s contribution to “Shari’a in the West”.
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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.
Posts by Jonathan VanAntwerpen:
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
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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Friday, June 4th, 2010
American Katechon
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Colloquium: secularism and its discontents
Event: Secularism and Its Discontents: The View from Jewish Studies. Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 16th Annual Gruss Colloquium, May 3-4, 2010. More details here.
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Theological arm wrestling
At The Daily Dish, Patrick Appel reviews a week-long debate over atheism and religion, and responds to the suggestion that “there really isn’t anything at all interesting to say anymore about atheism vs. religion, and hasn’t been since at least the 1950s, if not the 1850s.” Find his round-up of the week’s debate here.
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
A vast anti-narrative
Nathan Schneider on Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
The evolution of God
Paul Bloom reviews Robert Wright’s new book in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Talal Asad on religion, belief and politics
In his December 2008 Foerster Lecture at UC-Berkeley, Talal Asad discusses “attempts by anthropologists and others to define religion, the shifting place of ‘belief’ in that endeavor, and some of its implications for politics.” Watch the related interview here.
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Prison religion
Michael Warner blurbs a forthcoming book by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Beyond a concept
Mark Juergensmeyer blurbs Religion Beyond a Concept.
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