In the current issue of the New Yorker, James Wood reviews The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now (Princeton, 2011).
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August 3rd, 2011
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
posted by The EditorsEdited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so) Secular Age is the product of a collaboration between the SSRC and the School for Advanced Research.
July 21st, 2011
Inside Scientology
posted by Amanda KaplanReligion Dispatches interviews Janet Reitman on her newly published book, Inside Scientology: The History of America’s Most Secretive Religion.
July 5th, 2011
The Theological and the Political
posted by Charles GelmanFrom Fortress Press, an interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World (Fortress, 2011).
May 12th, 2011
Crafting the secular studies syllabus
posted by Charles GelmanPitzer College having announced that it will offer a major in “secular studies,” the Harvard University Press Blog compiles a list of titles essential to the subject.
March 23rd, 2011
Roy reviewed
posted by Justin ReynoldsDaniel Mahoney, author of The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order, reviewed Olivier Roy’s Holy Ignorance in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.
March 23rd, 2011
All surface, no substance?
posted by Charles GelmanGarry Wills does not like Dreyfus and Kelly’s All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age.
March 18th, 2011
Lives of Great Religious Books
posted by Jessica PolebaumNext Thursday, March, 24, NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the SSRC’s Program on Religion and the Public Sphere will host the launch of Princeton University Press’ new book series, “The Lives of Great Religious Books.”
March 8th, 2011
A review of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
posted by Charles GelmanAbraham Rubin reviews Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age at the blog of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Cardozo School of Law.
March 7th, 2011
A review of Paul Cliteur’s The Secular Outlook
posted by Charles GelmanJ. Caleb Clanton reviews Paul Cliteur’s The Secular Outlook, which aims “to show how religious believers and unbelievers can live peacefully together and what principles the state should try to stimulate in its citizenry to achieve social harmony and social cohesion.”
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