Juergensmeyer Mark - Rethinking secularism

Rethinking Secularism

Edited by Craig Calhoun

Mark Juergensmeyer
Jonathan VanAntwerpen

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rethinking secularism / edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer,
and Jonathan VanAntwerpen.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-19-979667-0; 978-0-19-979668-7 (pbk.)
1. Secularism. 2. Religion and politics. I. Calhoun, Craig J., 1952
II. Juergensmeyer, Mark. III. VanAntwerpen, Jonathan, 1970
BL2747.8.R47 2011 211.6dc22 2010052003

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R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Appleby is most recently the coauthor of Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World (2003). He is also the editor of Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (1997) and the coeditor, with Martin E. Marty, of the University of Chicago Press series on global fundamentalisms, which won the American Academy of Religions Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion.

Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Britain and has taught in various universities in the Middle East, as well as in Britain. His latest book is On Suicide Bombing (2007). Other publications include Formations of the Secular (2003) and Genealogies of Religion (1993).

Rajeev Bhargava is Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He has held positions at universities in both India and the United States. His publications include the edited Secularism and Its Critics (1998) and The Promise of Indias Secular Democracy (2010).

Craig Calhoun is President of the Social Science Research Council and Director of New York Universitys Institute for Public Knowledge. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU. His most recent books include Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream (2007), The Roots of Radicalism (2011), and Cosmopolitanism and Belonging: From European Integration to Global Hopes and Fears (2012). He is also coeditor of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (2010).

Jos Casanova is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at Georgetowns Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Casanova is the author of Public Religions in the Modern World (1994). His most recent research has focused primarily on globalization and religion and on the dynamics of transnational religion, migration, and increasing ethnoreligious and cultural diversity.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is an international political theorist and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (2008), co-editor of Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age (2010), and co-PI of the research project The Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices. She is currently writing a book on the intersection of law and religion in global politics.

Mark Juergensmeyer is Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent publications include Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militia to al Qaeda (2008). His widely read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (2000) is based on interviews with religious activists around the world and was listed by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year.

Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author, coauthor, editor, and coeditor of more than thirty books or monographs and more than one hundred articles or book chapters. His most recent books include the coauthored Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in World Politics (2010) and the edited Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives (2010).

Cecelia Lynch coeditor of On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge (2010), and Law and Moral Action in World Politics (2000), and author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (1999), which won the Edgar J. Furniss Prize for best book on international security and was a cowinner of the Byrna Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the coauthor of Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (2007), coeditor of On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge (2010) and Law and Moral Action in World Politics (2000), and author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (1999), which won the Edgar J. Furniss Prize for best book on international security and was a cowinner of the Myrna Bernath Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Richard Madsen is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His best-known works on American culture are those written with Robert Bellah, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton: Habits of the Heart (1995) and The Good Society (1991). His latest book is Democracys Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan (2007).

Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government and Director of the Luce-funded Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Stepan has published widely, and some of his publications include the coauthored Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies (2011), the edited Democracies in Danger (2009), and