Jonathan
VANAntwerpen
Jonathan VanAntwerpen grew up next door to a small church at the corner of Avery Street and Beelzebub Road. The son of three parents—a teacher, a professor, and a preacher—Jonathan is an author, an editor, and a program director. Originally trained as a philosopher, he holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jonathan
VanAntwerpen
Jonathan VanAntwerpen grew up next door to a small church at the corner of Avery Street and Beelzebub Road. The son of three parents—a teacher, a professor, and a preacher—Jonathan is an author, an editor, and a program director. Originally trained as a philosopher, he holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jonathan VanAntwerpen is a program director at the Henry Luce Foundation in New York City, where he directs the Luce Foundation's recently re-envisioned Religion and Theology Program.
Under VanAntwerpen’s leadership, the Luce Foundation’s Religion and Theology Program seeks to deepen public knowledge of religion and to draw on the wisdom of faith traditions to advance shared understanding. Partnering with scholars, religious leaders, media makers, museum curators, civic activists, and communities of faith, the program strengthens appreciation for the great diversity of American religious life, promotes more curious and civil public conversations, and cultivates faith-rooted efforts to envision and build a more just and democratic world. Visit the Henry Luce Foundation’s website to learn more about this program’s work and grantmaking.
Jonathan is co-editor of a series of books on secularism, religion, and public life, including Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press), The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press), The Post-Secular in Question (NYU Press), Habermas and Religion (Polity), and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (Harvard University Press). He was founding editor of The Immanent Frame, a digital forum produced by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).