http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/01/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-sharia/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/01/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-sharia/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:30:00 +0000 Noah Feldman http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/01/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-shari%e2%80%98a/ A few clarifying points are in order regarding an essay of mine in The New York Times Magazine that drew on a new book, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, out this past month from Princeton University Press. I began the essay with the recent lecture of the Archbishop of Canterbury to frame an irrefutable and I think interesting contrast: in the West, the word shari‘a is treated as radioactive, while in many places in the Muslim world (I quoted statistics from Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan) substantial majorities say they favor making the shari‘a into the source of law.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/01/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-sharia/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:23:18 +0000 Saba Mahmood http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/30/is-critique-secular-2/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/28/why-shariah/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/28/why-shariah/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:42:12 +0000 Saïd Amir Arjomand http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/28/why-shariah/ The New York Times Magazine ("Why Shariah?") with a reference to the proposal recently made by the Archbishop of Canterbury to allow the Shariah and Jewish law to be considered in voluntary family and arbitration courts. The Archbishop and the Professor are addressing very different issues, however. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/28/why-shariah/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/02/who-speaks-for-islam/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/02/who-speaks-for-islam/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:04:19 +0000 John Esposito http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/02/who-speaks-for-islam/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/02/who-speaks-for-islam/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/31/de-transcendentalizing-the-secular/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/31/de-transcendentalizing-the-secular/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:49 +0000 Stathis Gourgouris http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/31/de-transcendentalizing-the-secular/ Is critique secular?” determines substantially how one engages with secularism, how one comes to defend it, repudiate it, or reconceptualize it. My answer to this question is unequivocal: Yes, critique is secular, and to go even further, if the secular imagination ceases to seek and to enact critique, it ceases to be secular. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/31/de-transcendentalizing-the-secular/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/17/anti-secularism/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/17/anti-secularism/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:00:00 +0000 Hans Joas http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/17/anti-secularism/ More than most other great systematic thinkers of our time, Jürgen Habermas has for decades consistently expressed his views on the burning issues of the day, finding inspiration for his philosophical work in contemporary realities. There is still no sign of any let-up in his tremendous capacity to produce analyses of the contemporary world. With his new volume of essays, Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion, the philosopher now presents us with a collection of writings from the 2001-2004 period [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/17/anti-secularism/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/20/varieties-of-religion-today/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/20/varieties-of-religion-today/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:00:57 +0000 Hans Joas http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/20/varieties-of-religion-today/ In my first post, I discussed Charles Taylor’s book, A Catholic Modernity. I would now like to discuss a second book, which consists of lectures Taylor gave at the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in 2000; these grew out of his Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 1999. Surely the most renowned lecture series on the topic of religion, for more than one hundred years, leading thinkers have used this opportunity to share their ideas in the philosophy of religion. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/20/varieties-of-religion-today/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/14/a-catholic-modernity/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/14/a-catholic-modernity/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:33:29 +0000 Hans Joas http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/14/a-catholic-modernity/ Some readers of Sources of the Self, particularly its last few chapters, might have wondered how exactly Taylor’s indirect plea for theism, which he makes there, might be related to his personal religious conviction. But the book itself and Taylor’s publications in general make it rather difficult to answer this emerging question. As George Marsden remarks, “Only the most acute readers might surmise that the author is Catholic, if they did not know that already.”]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/14/a-catholic-modernity/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/28/religion-reconciliation-and-transitional-justice/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/28/religion-reconciliation-and-transitional-justice/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:31:06 +0000 Daniel Philpott http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/28/religion-reconciliation-and-transitional-justice/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/28/religion-reconciliation-and-transitional-justice/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/27/we-are-all-religious-now/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/27/we-are-all-religious-now/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:52:05 +0000 Winnifred Fallers Sullivan http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/27/we-are-all-religious-now/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/11/27/we-are-all-religious-now/feed/