Carlos Colorado

Biography

Dr. Carlos D. Colorado earned his Ph.D. in 2009 from McMaster University, Department of Religious Studies, with expertise in the areas of Religion and Politics and Western Religious Thought. His research and teaching attend critically to the place of religion in western modernity, focusing especially on the ways in which religious thought and practice shape social, political and ethical life in contemporary secular pluralist cultures. His current research focuses on religion in the public sphere in intercultural contexts, with a primary emphasis on Canada. He is an expert on the work of the Catholic Canadian political philosopher Charles Taylor. Dr. Colorado is currently finalizing a book manuscript entitled “Recovering Transcendence in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor’s Catholic Thought.” AdditionallIn summer 2013, Dr. Colorado organized and co-taught (along with Professor Susan Fisher-Stoesz) the department’s inaugural Bordeaux Field Study Program, which provided UW students the opportunity to study religious & cultural phenomena in the focused social context of France. He will be running this field school again in July 2016. Click here to watch a video with student testimonials about the program. Dr. Colorado was the instructor for CLASS’ first Institute, “Is Canada Secular?” The keynote lecturer for that Institute was the CBC’s Chantal Hébert. Dr. Colorado will teach the 2015 Spring Institute “Public Religion in a Secular World”. This second Institute delivered by CLASS features the inaugural Axworthy Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Cornel West.y, he is currently editing a special issue for Studies in Religion on the topic of religion at the margins of the secular public sphere.

Research Interest

Religion and Politics; Religion and Modernity; Secularism and Secularization; Religious Pluralism; Religious Fundamentalisms.