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Cosmopolitanism and the ideal of postsecular public reason

The notion of religion as somehow private has informed the modern era in a host of ways. Most are misleading but also constitutive of social practices and understandings. It is not that religion simply...

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So you want to be a new atheist

It is, by now, old hat to say that atheism is just another literalism, defined less by the content of its complaint than by the style of its conveyance. Writing of Richard Dawkins, literary critic...

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Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in conversation

In a symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles...

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The dangers of spirituality?

CNN profiles the growing “spiritual but not religious” population, contrasting the views of some who fear that the spiritual turn is symptomatic of a decline in meaningful commitments with those of...

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Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts

with Paul MacDonald, Ian Oliver, and Sam Speers There’s nothing like a Great Recession to set off a storm of conversation about the nature of liberal arts education. Sites such as The Chronicle of...

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Call for papers: Spirituality, political engagement, and public life

The SSRC Working Group on Spritituality, Political Engagement & Public Life is inviting submissions of abstracts for a conference to be held at Columbia University in New York City, June 3-4, 2011....

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CFP: Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life

A new grants program for journalists, sponsored by the Knight Program at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism: Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life,...

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New vistas in studying religion and public life

Around the turn of the twenty-first century, the focus on “public religion” emerged as a critical project to deconstruct modernist understandings of religion and thus the category of religion itself....

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