In “Introduction: Rethinking Secularism” by Calhoun, Juergensmeyer, and Antwerpen, the authors discuss how until recently it was assumed that public life was secular (3). The authors say on one hand people could write about economics, politics, and social behavior without it being connected to religion or as though religion didn’t exist at all (Calhoun et al., 3). They go on to say, “Secularism, on the other hand, appeared to have no ideological significance on its own, other than the taken-for-granted absence or obsolescence of religion” (Calhoun et al., 3). They argue that their aim of this article is “to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of how ‘the secular’ is constituted
