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Secularism

Bakker, “Ritual Sounds, Political Echoes”

Bakker, Sarah Kellogg. 2015. Ritual Sounds, Political Echoes: Vocal agency and the sensory cultures of secularism in the Dutch Syriac …

August 31, 2015 ndca-admin

Bielo, “Secular studies come of age”

Bielo, James. 2015. “Secular studies come of age.” Thesis Eleven. DOI: 10.1177/0725513615592986 Abstract: In this essay I review three important volumes for the …

July 3, 2015 ndca-admin

Oliphant, “Beyond blasphemy or devotion: art, the secular, and Catholicism in Paris”

Oliphant, Elayne. 2015. Beyond blasphemy or devotion: art, the secular, and Catholicism in Paris. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 21(2):352-373. Abstract: In this …

June 2, 2015 ndca-admin

Strhan, “Aliens & Strangers”

Strhan, Anna. 2015. Aliens & Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Publisher’s …

May 26, 2015 ndca-admin

Burrow-Branine, “Blogging while gay and Christian”

Burrow-Branine, Jonathan. 2015. “Blogging while gay and Christian: Andrew Sullivan and the production of the religious, secular, and sexual.” Culture and Religion: …

May 2, 2015 ndca-admin

Reynolds, “Discourses of Love”

Reynolds, Nicola.  2015. Discourses of Love, Compassion, and Belonging: Reframing Christianity for a Secular Audience.  Journal of Contemporary Religion 30(1): …

January 12, 2015 ndca-admin

Engelke, “Christianity and the Anthropology of Secular Humanism”

Engelke, Matthew.  2014. Christianity and the Anthropology of Secular Humanism.  Current Anthropology.  Early online publication. Abstract: Secular humanists in the …

November 18, 2014 ndca-admin

Engelhardt, “Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia”

Engelhardt, Jeffers. 2014. Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. …

October 16, 2014 ndca-admin

Hancock, “Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Postsecular Imaginary”

Hancock, Mary.  2015.  “Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Postsecular Imaginary.”  In Religion and Volunteering, edited by Lesley Hustinx, Johan von …

September 15, 2014 ndca-admin

Asad, Talal, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, & Saba Mahmood. 2013. Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury & Free Speech.

Reviewed by Brian Howell (Wheaton College).
This past summer began with a United States news cycle dominated by a single story. The U.S. Supreme Court voted in a 5-4 decision in favor of Hobby Lobby and its evangelical owners, the Green Family, supporting their claim that to provide certain forms of contraception

September 8, 2014 ndca-admin

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