Rethinking Secularism Edited by: Craig Calhoun, Mark Jurgensmeyer, and Jonathan Van Antwerpe Recent decades have brought increasing awareness of the role religious commitments play in the cultural, social, and political dynamics of domestic and world affairs. This so called ''resurgence'' of religion in the public sphere has forced scholars to reconsider both classical theories of secularization and a range of contemporary secular assumptions. Presenting groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Rethinking Secularism surveys the efforts and helps to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to central issue of how "the secular" is constituted and understood Craig Calhoun resident of the Social Science Research Council, University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University, and Founding Director of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. 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. Jonathan Van Antwerpen is Program Officer & Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Council.