On October 22, a conference will be held at New York University on "Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere".
From the program:
Judith Butler:
Why Judaism is not Zionism: Religious Sources for the Critique of Violence
Jürgen Habermas:
"The Political" - The Rational Sense of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology
Charles Taylor:
Why We Need a Radical Redefinition of Secularism
Cornel West:
Prophetic Religion and The Future of Capitalist Civilization
The conference is arranged by The Institute for Public Knowledge.