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Globalization, Religions, and the Secular

Leader: José Casanova

How does globalization intersect with the resurgence of public religion? To what extent do we live in a post-secular world? The Globalization, Religions, and the Secular project brought together leading scholars across disciplines to explore different dimensions of these questions across states, regions, and religious communities.

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José Casanova

Senior Fellow
Professor Emeritus

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Events

Videos

September 30, 2015

Globalization, Religion, and the Secular

Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes

April 15, 2015

Charles Taylor Discusses Meditation and the Lives of Faith Today

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

April 15, 2015

Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

Duration: 6 minutes

Publications

Article January 28, 2019

Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters. By Christian Smith

Reviewing Christian Smith's Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters José Casanova describes the book's general definition of "religion" as the best theoretical-analytical definition he has seen, though not fully satisfactory and insufficient to ground a general “theory” of religion.

Blog Post

April 2, 2013

The Church in the World: Secular Morality and the Challenge of Gender

Feminism might not be the main problem facing the Church. On the contrary, rather than banishing the very term “gender” to a Syllabus of errors as ideological anathema, a proper response to the feminist challenge could in fact be a solution to many of the contemporary problems facing the Church.

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