Whither the Secular City

Dr. Louis Greenspan 

Professor Emeritus, 

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 

Dr. Greenspan, a scholar of Canadian intellectual history and modern, liberal Jewish thought, traces the changing roles of religion and secularism in the past 60 years - both in universities and in the world. He draws on his personal observation of university religious studies departments from the 1950s, an era in which those departments seemed like “museums of a dying world,” to the current era of dynamic international changes in which religion often plays a major role. Dr. Greenspan also discusses ideas from Charlies Taylor’s book, “A Secular Age,” and from Harvey Cox’s book, “The Secular City.”