The Problem of Job
An Eastern Response
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Samuel Laeuchli is Professor of Religious Studies at Temple University.
Arvind Sharma was born in India and had his early education there. He then joined the IAS ( Indian Administrative Service) and served in the state of Gujarat (1962-68) before resuming his academic career in the United States, towards the end of which he was appointed as a lecturer in Australia in 1976 and taught at the Universities of Queensland and Sydney. He moved to McGill University in 1987 where he is currently the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion. He has also taught in the United States (Northeastern University, Boston University, Temple University, Harvard University) and in India (Nalanda University).
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The editors of Arc: Journal of the School of Religious Studies are pleased to announce a call for papers and book reviews for our forthcoming volume (Vol. 53). McGill University and the School of Religious Studies has a field-defining place in both the study of religion and the study of secularism. Wilfred Cantwell Smith, one of the pioneers of the discipline of religious studies in North America, taught an undergraduate class in comparative religion. While an undergraduate at McGill in 1950, Charles Taylor attended these lectures and describes them as transformative. Taylor’s 2007 opus A Secular Age was, likewise, transformative and determinative for all subsequent studies into the nature of the secular and remains the touchstone in the field. It was written in Berlin in conversation with Hans Joas and José Casanova. In 2025, all three scholars returned to McGill for a retrospective seminar with graduate students on their work on secularism and religion, along with discussions of the future of these concepts.
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