The Immanent Frame is a widely read blog on secularism, religion, and the public square founded and edited by Jonathan VanAntwerpen at the Social Science Research Council. To mark the recent launch of Contending Modernities, TIF is hosting a lively and wide-ranging discussion. A baker’s dozen of outstanding scholars considered these questions: What is gained by framing research on religion, secularity, and modernity in terms of “multiple” or “contending” modernities? What “new paths for constructive engagement” might such a frame afford?
Distinguished discussants include Scott Appleby and Christian Smith of Notre Dame as well as Lisa Sowle Cahill, Jocelyne Cesari, Robert W. Hefner, Sherman Jackson, Slavica Jakelić, Bernice Martin, David Martin, Martin E. Marty, Aminah McCloud, Robert Orsi, and Eboo Patel.
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.