Links

Birkbeck Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society
The Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society was formed in March 2008 to bring together
researchers from across Birkbeck College who share interests in the social, cultural, political and legal
significance of religion in the contemporary world.

Center for Atheist Research
The Center serves as a nonpartisan Internet hub for social science research on atheism and secularity,
and invites individuals from across the religious/spiritual/secular spectrum to participate in their current
online research studies.

Critical Religion Category Network (CRCN)
The term ‘critical religion’ is shorthand for the theoretical and methodological practice of taking ‘religion’
not as an isolated stand-alone category but as a term in a configuration of related categories. The
purpose of this network and the workshops and conferences which it organises and promotes is to
explore modern constructions of ‘religion’, ‘politics’, ‘the state’, economics’ in different sites of
contestation to reveal their ideological function in the legitimation of the rationality of global capitalism.

The Immanent Frame
A collective blog established in conjunction with projects on religion and the public sphere at the Social
Science Research Council.

Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC)
Trinity College, Hartford, CA
The Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) was established in 2005 to
advance understanding of the role of secular values and the process of secularization in contemporary
society and culture. Nonpartisan and multidisciplinary, the Institute conducts academic research,
sponsors curriculum development, and presents public events.

Investigating Atheism
The purpose of this site is to set these contemporary 'God Wars' in their historical context, and to offer a
range of perspectives (from all sides) on the chief issues raised by the 'new atheists'. The site contains a
definition and historical contextualisation of contemporary atheism, an account of atheist organisations
and demographics, an overview of the current controversies, and includes orientation to discussion on
issues felt to be central to the current controversies.

Religious-Secular Distinctions
A discussion forum on the topic of distinctions between the religious and the secular.

The Religion and Secularism Network
This has been set up by a Cambridge-based group with wide international experience, including social
scientists, a historian and a political philosopher. The aim of the network is to contribute conceptual
clarity and high quality information to debates about the state-religion relationship, by bringing to light the
multiplicity of arrangements which govern it in different countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas.