History and the Secular

Reli­gion has always had its own ver­sions of his­to­ry and the sec­u­lar, which con­tin­ue to cir­cu­late and com­pete with “sec­u­lar” ver­sions of the same. Aban­don­ing God’s time for human time also appears both to relo­cate the reli­gious with­in his­tor­i­cal time, and push it beyond the hori­zon of his­to­ry alto­geth­er. The cir­cu­lar­i­ties – and our ten­ta­tive antic­i­pa­to­ry tens­es — sig­nal that per­haps we are not ask­ing the ques­tion in the right way. This work­shop invites an open con­sid­er­a­tion of how we might ask it bet­ter.

Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the event is pos­si­ble with­out reg­is­tra­tion