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Secularism
Interviews with scholars of secularism about their new books.
October 29, 2024
Some New World
In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to imagi…
September 29, 2024
Being Hindu, Being Indian
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav’s book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systema…
September 23, 2024
The Myth of Disenchantment
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josep…
September 17, 2024
Religion As Make-Believe
It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of s…
August 18, 2024
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean …
August 3, 2024
Recasting Islamic Law
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religio…
July 10, 2024
Secularism, the State, and Islam
An interview with Dr. Nadia Fadil who speaks about secularism the state and Islam. We delve into questions such as what it means to call Islam a lived…
June 16, 2024
Red Secularism
Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 (Cambridge UP, 2023) is the first substantive investigation into one of the k…
June 13, 2024
Secularism As Misdirection
In this episode, we speak to Nivedita Menon about her new book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (Duke University Pr…
April 29, 2024
Black Freethinkers
Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) by Christopher Cameron, an Associate Professor of h…
October 2, 2023
Life without God
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the …
September 11, 2023
The Future of Secularization
The statement ‘we live in a secular age’ is open to the obvious challenge that in some parts of the word, religion is a growing force in society. And …
August 17, 2023
Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing
Sharada Sugirtharajah's edited volume Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing (Routledge, 2022) explores the theme of happ…
August 10, 2023
Science and Religion in India
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (Routledge, 2022) provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context …
June 28, 2023
Sufi Deleuze
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim…
June 25, 2023
Accidental Gods
Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the moder…
June 22, 2023
Slandering the Sacred
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious …
June 13, 2023
Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism
Two new books on secularism and atheism in German and Soviet socialist cultures are reshaping scholarly understandings of the relationship between soc…
May 26, 2023
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. Patrick Corbeil is the first ext…