Posts Tagged ‘Jonathan Sheehan’

November 4th, 2010

Indifference we can believe in

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Why is it so difficult to treat religion as just another cultural phenomenon?

July 16th, 2010

Shedding daylight on the here and after

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In reflecting on the Notes from the Field contributions surrounding the topic of secularization, Jonathan Sheehan, in his recent post “Something more mundane,” reiterates his hope for the creation of “something else ‘after secularization’”. . . . In line with this, Sheehan suggests that a concept of secularization must not be taken as a “foundational first principal,” but rather that the uses of such an idea—if it does in deed prove to be useful—will manifest only as a result of dedicated research.