As the world deals with the aftermath of the Islamic terror attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, UC Santa Cruz anthropology professor Mayanthi ...

New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism Christian nationalists Sean Hannity and Robert Jeffress. Screen shot from First Baptist ...

Early in “The End of Secularism,” Hunter Baker of Houston Baptist University talks about his religious awakening. He came to believe that if the God of the Bible existed and was active in human ...

Is the Middle East becoming more 'secular'? Is Islam an obstacle to secularization? Yes, and no, answers professor Sami Zubaida in a new collection of his most important work. [ review ] "Secularism" ...

In Donovan Schaefer’s earlier book, Religious Affects, the religion theorist considered the role of emotion in shaping self-understanding and belief. Because that book focused on religion, he worried ...

In my last column, I made another reference to “secularism,” and it occurs to me this term and concept deserves further consideration. As it happens, a much-needed book has just been published by ...

In 1950, fewer than 5 percent of Americans were nonreligious. Sixty years later, in 2010, as Phil Zuckerman writes in his new book, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions (Penguin, Dec.

As the world deals with the aftermath of the Islamic terror attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, UC Santa Cruz anthropology professor Mayanthi ...