The Social Science Research Council has lstarted a blog called The Immanent Frame, dedicated to a dialogue and critical exchange about how secularism and religion interact in the public sphere.

For openers, the folks at SSRC organized a forum to discuss Charles Taylor's new tome, A Secular Age. None other than Robert N. Bellah, the emeritus professor at Berkeley, gets things started with this effusive appraisal of Taylor's work: "I have long admired Charles Taylor and have read most of what he has written and always found him helpful. Yet for me, A Secular Age is his breakthrough book--one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime. Taylor succeeds in no less than recasting the entire debate about secularism."

Other contributions are from Akeel Bilgrami, Wendy Brown, Hent de Vries, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, and Colin Jager.

Last year The Chronicle Review published a forum on Robert Bellah on the occasion of his 80th birthday.