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 ...

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.

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 ...

THE coexistence of the “godly” and the “godless” of traditional piety and modern secularism has been a characteristic of Western civilization since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...