22 October 2009
EVENT
Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Cooper Union’s Great Hall
7 East 7th St at Bowery
Speakers: Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West
Audio from this event has been posted the Immanent Frame, an SSRC blog.
What are the consequences of particular religious-secular distinctions?
25-26 June 2009
WORKSHOP
What are the consequences of particular religious-secular distinctions?
University of Aberdeen
NSRN and Lois Lee mentioned in The Guardian
The NSRN and NSRN founder Lois Lee have been mentioned in a piece on the flourishing of social scientific research of non-believers. See the article, ‘Have faith in atheists’, at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/21/atheists-discriminate
NSRN in the Boston Globe
26 April 2009
The NSRN has been included in Nathan Schneider’s discussion of current secularity research, published today in The Boston Globe. Read ‘Beyond belief: Research on religion goes after a new target: The secular’ online at www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/26/beyond_belief/
NSRN Launch First Website
16 March 2009
With funding support from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, the NSRN launch its first website, at http://www.nsrn.co.uk.