Jonathan VanAntwerpen is a program director at the Henry Luce Foundation. Originally trained as a philosopher, he received his Ph.D. in sociology from UC-Berkeley, and served for a decade on the staff of the Social Science Research Council. VanAntwerpen is co-editor, with Eduardo Mendieta, of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, which includes contributions by Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West, and an afterword by Craig Calhoun.
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere was published in English by Columbia University Press. It has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. VanAn…
Jonathan VanAntwerpen is a program director at the Henry Luce Foundation. Originally trained as a philosopher, he received his Ph.D. in sociology from UC-Berkeley, and served for a decade on the staff of the Social Science Research Council. VanAntwerpen is co-editor, with Eduardo Mendieta, of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, which includes contributions by Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West, and an afterword by Craig Calhoun.
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere was published in English by Columbia University Press. It has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. VanAntwerpen’s additional co-edited volumes include: Habermas and Religion (Polity), The Post-Secular in Question (NYU Press), Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press), and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (Harvard University Press).
In addition to his work on secularism, religion, and public life, VanAntwerpen has written and published on the emergence of the field of transitional justice, on American philanthropy and the politics of reconciliation, on transformations in higher education, and on the history of the social sciences. His doctoral research and subsequent writing on the aftermath of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission were supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council’s Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector (funded by a grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies), and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.