Jonathan VanAntwerpen

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Program Director at Henry Luce Foundation

What role might digital media play in reshaping the way that knowledge is produced, distributed, circulated, consumed, and refashioned? In partial response to this question, this paper will explore the possibilities associated with digital media through a series of reflections on the work of The Immanent Frame (http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/) and relat...

Within the brief history of the field of transitional justice, South African renderings of reconciliation both loom large and occupy an exceptional and somewhat unstable place. This chapter, critically examines this placement by considering, first (and all too partially), the history of reconciliation in South Africa and the place of the South Afri...

The importance of the internet and new social media cannot be gainsaid, though as scholars our first inclination is to put it in context. What changes have come or will come because of new mass communication techniques that are heavily graphicsdriven? Will the ability to merge and display multiple media sources change the way we think about religio...

To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion’s prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas’s engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much of his own work in fresh perspectiv...

This book explores the question of whether we are living in a post-secular world by focusing on the state of religiosity in the world and religion's place in the social sciences and beyond. In the context of claims about religious resurgence, this book examines the legacies of secularism and secularization theory, the contested categories of religi...

A diverse but very stimulating collection. -- Robert Bellah, author of Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisc...

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potentia...

This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the...

“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanati...

This chapter begins with a retrospective construction and invocation of the category of “mainstream sociology,” with special attention given to the heroes of the insurgents, Mills and Gouldner. It then turns to the era of postwar expansion most frequently associated with the rise and dominance of the so-called mainstream, discussing the figures Bou...

This article situates Craig Calhoun's early sociological trajectory within a diverse set of movements that aimed to transform the discipline of sociology in the United States. As a means to historicizing Calhoun's critical intellectual practice, I position it within the extensively debated, though only partially understood, disciplinary insurgencie...