Religion Book Symposium Archives | Contending Modernities

Photo Credit: Wally Gobetz, on Flickr.com. NYC - FiDi: Trinity Church.

Modernities and Religious Identity and Difference

Christian Smith
April 20, 2018April 21, 2018

Modernity is not simply a political and economic project, but more deeply a cultural one, in some ways a sacred or quasi-religious project.

Photo Credit: United Church of Christ/Jessie Palatucci. UCC March and Action to Stop Deportations at Baltimore ICE Office. Rev. Traci Blackmon, Executive Minister for the United Church of Christ.

Understanding Religion in Light of Shifting Practice

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Abdulkader Tayob
April 9, 2018

“Religion” calls for rethinking the familiar models used to think of religion and public life: control, capitulation, co-optation, or rejection.

Toward a Common Respectful Attentiveness to Religions

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Francis X. Clooney, SJ
March 9, 2018March 16, 2018

Christian Smith helps us see that people who are religious can more confidently lay our claim to a public sphere which is no longer a neutral, secular space.

Drepung monastery is one of the largest monasteries in Tibet. It was from here that the 2nd through the 5th Dalai Lama lived and ruled - until the 5th commissioned the Potala to be built.

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Anne C. Klein
February 16, 2018

When we study medicine, biology, even the arts, we understand that every human being is much more like us than not. But with religion, difference dominates.

Religion Book Symposium Articles

Modernities and Religious Identity and Difference

Understanding Religion in Light of Shifting Practice

Toward a Common Respectful Attentiveness to Religions

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness