Courtney Bender

Courtney Bender is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion, Columbia University. She is the author of Heaven's Kitchen: Living Religion at God's Love We Deliver (2003) and a forthcoming volume, Worlds of Experience: Contemporary Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination, both published with the University of Chicago Press.

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Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Rethinking religious pluralism

Alongside the ongoing discussion of A Secular Age, I would like to consider another important nexus in modern life—religious pluralism. As is clear from recent immigration debates, conflicts over the legitimacy of religious legal systems within secular states, and a variety of other flashpoints from comic strip controversies to family law issues, religion, or rather religions in plural, are at the center of debates about modern democracies and their futures. [...]

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