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Secularization
Working Conference: January 2006
In January 2006,
the Institute hosted a one-day conference on religion and
secularization in the Rotunda at the University of Virginia
with invited scholars José Casanova, Talal
Asad, and Pippa Norris. The conversation
took up the following quandary: Despite the predictions
of many social scientists, religion has not disappeared
from public life, either through the waning of religious
belief and practice or through its privatization or expulsion
from the public sphere. Given this, is secularization theory
still useful, perhaps with some revision, to understand
the role of religion in the contemporary world? Or, is
a new theory, paradigm, or discourse needed to replace
secularization theory?
Papers from this conference are published in the Spring/Summer
2006 issue of The Hedgehog Review. |
