Showing posts with label secularism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secularism. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 September 2011

The making of Indian secularism: book review

Professor Chandra Mallampalli of  the History Department at Westmont College (California) reviews Nandini Chatterji's "The making of Indian secularism: Empire, law and Christianity" in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History

Dr. Nandini Chatterji teaches in the History Department at Plymouth University (Devon, U.K.).
Click here to read the her response to Professor Mallampalli's review

And read the book in SOAS Library at JA322.1 /737922

Thursday, 19 May 2011

A qualification in secularism?

Colleges and universities have long offered degree courses in religious studies and theology, but now one college in the USA has moved to offer the first degree programme in secularism.
Pitzer College is "a small liberal arts institution" in Southern California  and the course will comprise modules such as "God, Darwin and Design in America", "Anxiety in the Age of Reason" and "Bible as literature"
Read more in this online article from the New York Times