As I read Roy, he reserves a place for a religion that is not admixed with other types of things,…
John R. Bowen
John R. Bowen is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies questions of Islam, law, and society in Indonesia and Europe, and his latest books include the collaborative work Pragmatic Inquiry (Routledge, 2021) and On British Islam (Princeton, 2016). Awarded a Guggenheim prize in 2012 and named a Carnegie Fellow in 2016, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Surveying religious knowledge
Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey,…
Summer reading: Part I
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…
Islam and authority
In his new book, Abdullahi an-Na`im argues that Muslims need a secular state to live their religious lives. Alongside his…
The scope and uses of secularity
Early in Charles Taylor’s study, he remarks that the secular condition, in which belief is an option and religion a…