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Secularism
Interviews with scholars of secularism about their new books.
March 9, 2026
Towards a Godless Dominion
In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago, Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast…
February 23, 2026
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe
The open access Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (Bloomsbury, 2025) offers readers a state-of-the-art guide to the …
February 23, 2026
Brooklyn Odyssey
Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community, Zalman Newfield was raised in an atmosphe…
February 9, 2026
Sincerely Held
"Sincerely held religious belief" is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Cou…
February 5, 2026
What God Would Have Known
In this book, What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2024), P…
January 7, 2026
Broken Altars
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century A popular truism d…
December 31, 2025
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 …
December 27, 2025
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025), edited by David Newheiser and Lexi Eikelboom, i…
August 3, 2025
The Secular Enlightenment
The Secular Enlightenment by Professor Margaret C. Jacob, has been called a major new history on how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday l…
June 16, 2025
Experiments in Mystical Atheism
A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.Western philosophy is stuck in an irresolvable conflict between two a…
May 22, 2025
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence (Routledge, 2025) comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and …
May 2, 2025
"I have not Finished..."
Emilie Diouf of Brandeis English, whose monograph on genocide and trauma is forthcoming, joins John to speak with the celebrated French journalist an…
February 24, 2025
Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China
What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has 愛 ai (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generation…
February 9, 2025
Evolution for the People
From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention …
December 24, 2024
Faith in Rights
Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations (Stanford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Amélie Barras explores why and how Chr…
December 13, 2024
Without a Prayer
The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its hist…
November 20, 2024
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere
What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or su…
November 13, 2024
A Normative Sociological Approach to Secularism and Multiculturalism
In this episode, Dr. Uzma Jamil introduces Tariq Modood on his new book Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism. This episode was originally publis…
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…