Linell Cady

Linell Cady is Franca Oreffice Dean's Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. She is co-director and co-editor of Religion Dispatches. Her full bio can be found here.

ArchiveNovember 12, 2009

Moses on the Mayflower: Was the Prophet a Founding Father?

By Linell Cady

Author Bruce Feiler is back from “walking the Bible” and is roaming the country, tracing Moses’ footsteps. But in his eagerness to make the prophet into a unifying symbol, he misses the true complexity of the relationship between religion and the secular in America.

Politics/LawJuly 3, 2009

Mad About Secularism: Turkey and the Global Politics of Religion

By Linell Cady

Imposing our own notion of the religion/secular divide on the international scene fosters misunderstanding.

(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/LawJune 22, 2009

My Bible and the Bill of Rights

By Linell Cady

Refusing to cede religion to the right, the Born Again American campaign offers patriotism and religion in service of a liberal agenda. But is this sort of religious nationalism the answer?

(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/LawJune 15, 2009

Doubting Obama: A Response to Harper’s and Simon Critchley

By Linell Cady

Is authentic religious commitment incompatible with critical thinking, reason, or compromise, as philosopher Simon Critchley seems to imply in a recent essay on Obama? Or is our challenge to refuse the false oppositions between total transformation and conflict, or politics and piety?

Politics/LawMarch 11, 2009

A High Wall, A Sacred Canopy, A Conversation

By Linell Cady

Religion and secularism in American politics: there’s more than one way to understand the relationship.