Again, for the keen eyed this is a little slow in being posted on here, but still worth sharing. The ImmanentFrame have posted an except from Charles Taylor’s chapter in the edited volume Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011).
A little slow in publishing this but still worth a read. New Statesman‘s Jonathan Derbyshire interviews Charles Taylor on his new book Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey Edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan Published by Columbia University Press, February 2012 While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, … Continue reading
Due to be published this month, The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society Edited By Philip Gorski, David Kyuman Kim, John Torpey and Jonathan Van Antwerpen ISBN: 9780814738726 A review of the book, by James K.A. Smith can be found on his blog, fors clavigera More details about the book can be found on the New York University … Continue reading
Religion and Rethinking the Human The ‘human,’ like that of ‘religion,’ is a category always under contestation. In current Euro-American scholarship and public culture, there is an acute anxiety about humans’ excessive reliance on technology, its environmental costs, and the ominous prospect of a post-human dystopia. These anxieties have been recognised, theorised, and allayed by … Continue reading
Please note the CFP below for the special Issue “Religion & Globalization”. Areas of interest include the re-enchantment of the world and the transient nature of religious practice. It would be interesting to see included some work on similar negotiations within secular practices and discourses or other view points on the secular. A special issue … Continue reading
Grace Davie discusses the changing nature of religion, particularly in the UK and Europe following her keynote address to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Milwaukee last October. Listen to the podcast “In this interview with Chris, Professor Davie discusses the place of religion in modern Europe, paying particular attention to the place … Continue reading
A slightly shameless plug of my own work, (but also in keeping with a non-religion and religion discourse) just published on the Religious Studies Project Site. The piece was published by the Religious Studies Project, on 24 February 2012 responds to the Religious Studies Project Interview with George Chryssides on The Insider/Outsider Problem (20 February 2012)
The Council for Secular Humanists has published a paper by Frank L. Pasquale, titled “The Social Science of Secularity“ Following a failure of irreligious studies to get off the ground in 1971, the purposeful study of the non-religious has again attempted flight and seems to be rocketing, as a subject in its own right, as much … Continue reading
Perhaps there might be some interest for applications which include a persective on secularism and nonreligion in this special issue of Gender, Religion and Migration. The special issue on Gender, Religion and Migration will look at the intersectional dimension of gender, ethnicity and religion where religion in particular plays a central role in providing a … Continue reading
