Books
McCrary, Charles. Sincerely Held: American Secularism and its Believers (U Chicago Press, 2022).
The “sincerity test” of religious belief has become a cornerstone of US jurisprudence, framingwhat counts as legitimate grounds for First Amendmentclaims in the eyes of the law.InSincerely Held, Charles McCrary provides an original account of how sincerely heldreligious belief became the primary standard for determining what legally counts asauthentic religion. Tracing the interlocking historiesof American sincerity, religion, andsecularism starting in the mid-nineteenth century, McCrary reveals how sincerity andsincerely held religious belief developed as technologies of secular governance, determiningwhat does and doesn’t entitle a person toreceive protections from the state.
McCrary, Charles. Sincerely Held: American Secularism and its Believers (U Chicago Press, 2022).
The “sincerity test” of religious belief has become a cornerstone of US jurisprudence, framingwhat counts as legitimate grounds for First Amendmentclaims in the eyes of the law.InSincerely Held, Charles McCrary provides an original account of how sincerely heldreligious belief became the primary standard for determining what legally counts asauthentic religion. Tracing the interlocking historiesof American sincerity, religion, andsecularism starting in the mid-nineteenth century, McCrary reveals how sincerity andsincerely held religious belief developed as technologies of secular governance, determiningwhat does and doesn’t entitle a person toreceive protections from the state.
Scholarly Articles, Essays or Chapters
Bennett, Gaymon. “The Digital Sublime: Algorithmic Binds in a Living Foundry,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Angelaki, Taylor & Francis, Volume 25, Issue 3, 41-52 (2020)
Bennett, Gaymon, “The Politics of Intrinsic Worth: Why Bioethics (Still) Needs Human Dignity,” Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing, eds. Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston (Oxford 2019).
Bennett, Gaymon with photography by Taylor R. Genovese. “Anima, Animism, Animate: Ethnography after Authenticity,” Techniques Journal 1, no. 1 (April 16, 2021) https://techniquesjournal.com/anima-animism-animate-ethnography-after-authenticity/
Nydal, Rune, Gaymon Bennett, Astrid Lægrid, Martin Kuiper “Silencing Trust: Confidence and Familiarity in Re-engineering Knowledge Infrastructures.” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (Springer, 2020) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11019-020-09957-0
Cady, Linell E., “’Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert:’ Religion, Science and Spirituality in a Postsecular Age,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32:1 (Spring 2020): 29-48.
Calhoun, Craig. “Secularism and Social Transformation,” Keynote Address to the European Academy of Religion,” in pp. 19-55 in EUARE Lectures, 2019. Bologna: European Academy of Religion (2020).
Calhoun, Craig. “Populism and Democracy: The Long View,” pp. 227-46 in B. Vormann and M. Weiman, eds., The Emergence of Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon, London: Routledge (2020).
Calhoun, Craig. “Moishe Postone and the Transcendence of Capitalism,” Critical Historical Studies, 2020, Vol. 7 (1): 145-65.
Hilgartner, Stephen, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, and Sheila Jasanoff. “Was ‘science’ on the ballot?” Science, February 2021, Vol. 371 (6532): 893-4.
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin. “Dangerous Practices of Sovereign Science.” Somatosphere, March 3, 2021. http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/dangerous-practices/
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin. “Decoding the CRISPR-baby stories.” A review essay of Kevin Davies’ Editing Humanity, Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker, and Ebon Kirksey’s The Mutant Project. MIT Technology Review, February 24, 2021. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/24/1017838/crispr-baby-gene-editing-jiankui-history/
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin. “Behold the Man: Figuring the Human in the Era of Biotechnology.” In A Critical Reflection on Automated Science: Will Science Remain Human? ed. Marta Bertolaso and Fabio Sterpetti (Springer: 2020).
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin. “Imperatives of Governance: Human Genome Editing and the Problem of Progress.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 63, no. 1 (February 11, 2020): 177–94.
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, Ingrid Metzler, Luca Marelli, and Sheila Jasanoff. “Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-Knowledge.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 45, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 1087–1118.
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, Sheila Jasanoff, and Krishanu Saha. “Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 45, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 979–1000.
Jasanoff, Sheila, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, and Krishanu Saha. “Democratic Governance of Human Germline Genome Editing.” The CRISPR Journal 2, no. 5 (October 1, 2019): 266–71.
Misha Angrist, Rodolphe Barrangou, Françoise Baylis, Carolyn Brokowski, Gaetan Burgio, Arthur Caplan, Carolyn Riley Chapman, George M. Church, Robert Cook-Deegan, Bryan Cwik, Jennifer A. Doudna, John H. Evans, Henry T. Greely, Laura Hercher, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Richard O. Hynes, Tetsuya Ishii, Samira Kiani, LaTasha Hoskins Lee, Guillaume Levrier, David R. Liu, Jeantine E. Lunshof, Kerry Lynn Macintosh, Debra J.H. Mathews, Eric M. Meslin, Peter H.R. Mills, Lluis Montoliu, Kiran Musunuru, Dianne Nicol, Helen O'Neill, Renzong Qiu, Robert Ranisch, Jacob S. Sherkow, Sheetal Soni, Sharon Terry, Eric Topol, Robert Williamson, Feng Zhang, and Kevin Davies. “Reactions to the National Academies/Royal Society Report on Heritable Human Genome Editing.” The CRISPR Journal 3, no. 5 (October 1, 2020): 332–49. https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2020.29106.man
McCrary, Charles. "'a splendid norm': Human Plants and the Eugenic Secular, 1906-1926," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (forthcoming, 2021).
McCrary, Charles. “‘Ash Like People Now’: Philadelphia Fire and Humanization,” Religious Studies Review 48, no. 2 (Spring, 2022).
McCrary, Charles. “Secularism and the Freedom to (Self-)Regulate.” Part of a review forum on Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment, by Michael McNally. Journal of Law and Religion 37, no. 1 (Jan., 2022): 191–195.
Mellquist Lehto, Heather. “Global Christianity as Method: Seeing Korean Christianity in American Megachurches.” American Religion. (December 2021)
Mellquist Lehto, Heather. “Grafting Missionary Infrastructures.” Infrastructures: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. (December 2021).
Mellquist Lehto, Heather. "Learning from Religious Diasporas in Pandemic Times" Religion and Society, vol. 11, no. 1 (November 2020).
Mellquist Lehto, Heather. “Designing Secularity at Sarang Church.” Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, (October 2020): 429-454.
Mellquist Lehto, Heather. “Debate: Religion and SARS-CoV2 (organized collection, with contributions from Marla Frederick, Yunus Telliel, and Heather Mellquist Lehto).” Religion and Society, vol. 11, no. 1, September: 186-204.
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. "The Transhumanist Pied Piers: A Jewish Caution against False Messianism," in Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics, ed. Arvin Gouw, Brian Patrick Green and Ted Peters (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022)
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. "Jewish Environmental Ethics for the Anthropocene: An Integrative Approach," in Kalman Bland Memorial Issue Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy,30 (no. 1) (2022): 363-388.
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. “Nature, Book of, Judaism,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and
Its Reception, vol. 20 (Berlin: De Guyter, 2022)
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, “Eliezer Schweid: A Zionist Prophet of Post-Secularism,” in Jewish Thought and Its Research: The Thought and Works of Eliezer Schweid, ed. Yehoyada Amir and Joseph (Yossi) Turner, vol. 2, pp. 281-310 (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2020).
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. "Ethics of Care and Responsibility: Bridging Secular and Religious Cultures," in Environmental Ethics: Crosscultural Explorations, ed. Monika Kirlosak-Steinbach and Madalina Diaconou (Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, March 2020, pp. 29-57). *book linked here
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, “Human Flourishing and History: A Religious Imaginary for the Anthropocene," Journal of Philosophy of History, 14 (2020): 382-418. Special issue on “Historical Thinking and the Human,” ed. Zoltan Simon and Marek Tamm.
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. "The Paradoxes of Transhumanism: Technological Spirituality or Techno-Idolatry" was published in Theologische Literaturzeitung, 146 (3) (2021): 124-146.
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. “Religion, Science, and Secularism,” in Bloomsbury Religion in North America, Theology and Religion Online, ed. Whitney Bauman and Lisa Stenmark (London: Bloomsbury Publishiing, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350934986.006
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. Review of David Seidenberg, Kabbalah and Ecology: The Image of God and the More-than-Human World (Cambridge, 2015), Worldviews; Global Relations, Culture and Ecology 25 (2021): 180-182.
Harsh, Matthew, Kerry Holden, Jameson Wetmore, G. Pascal Zachary, and Ravosh Bal, “Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala,” Social Studies of Science, 2019, Vol. 49(1), 52–76.
Zachary, G. Pascal, “Book Review: The Technology Treadmill,” a review essay of Gluckman & Hanson’s Ingenious: The Unintended Consequences of Human Innovation. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2020, pp. 69-71.
Zachary, G. Pascal, “Powerful Knowledge” review of Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II in Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2020.