What I found interesting in Rosen's book is the implicit dialogue between Charles Taylor and Hans Blumenberg on modernity and secularization that runs through his book . We mention this towards the end of our introduction of the special issue.

It also features a piece by Rosen where he specifies what he means by secularization, which is a central idea that remains implicit in the book.

The Journal of the Philosophy of History published a symposium on Michael Rosen's 'The Shadow of God', co-edited by Marijn Nohlmanns, Kai-Uwe Hoffman, and myself. It has interesting contributions by Richard Bourke, Daniel Chernilo, Corinne Schubert, and others, as well as response from Rosen.

It is very exciting to see the debate gaining traction. Looking forward to the submissions for the special issue in @bsaecf.bsky.social’s Sociology. CfP 👇

This is a call to reopen the question of normativity in sociology – as a condition of our practice and theories. Sociology operates between critique and commitment, yet our normative entanglements are typically black-boxed or taken as self-explanatory.

A new paper (with G Watts) arguing that descriptive and evaluative components are intertwined in empirical sociological accounts, and that the distinction between the good and the right can clarify the variety of normative reasoning in sociology.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...