Race and Secularism in America draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious studies, and political theory, contributors expose secularism's prohibitive practices in all facets of American society and suggest opportunities for change.

Panelists will include:

Courtney Bender, Columbia University
Joshua Dubler, University of Rochester
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
William Hart, Macalester College
Jonathon Kahn, Vassar College
Vincent Lloyd, Syracuse University
George Shulman, New York University
Josef Sorett, Columbia University
Andrea White, Union Theological Seminary

This is event is sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; the Society of Fellows in the Humanities; the Center for Race, Philosophy, and Social Justice; and Columbia University Press.