Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnography that analyzes the religious and political dynamics of the Islamic revival in France and…
Politicizing Islam: An introduction
Book introductions
In short essays, authors introduce their new or upcoming books to readers of The Immanent Frame. These often provide additional commentary in an original essay or are short excerpts from the publication.
Beheading the Saint: An introduction
Beheading the Saint is about the shifting relationship between nationalism, religion, and secularism in a society which was, until the…
Muslim Cool: An introduction
The book focuses on interminority relationships to articulate a narrative of race and racism in the United States that transcends…
Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: An introduction
Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other is a curious book, in part because it came out of a…
Religion and populism
This adapted excerpt is republished with permission of the publishers—Hurst in Europe; OUP in North America—from Saving the People: How Populists…
Relativism and Religion: An introduction
Politicized religion seems to have a new enemy: Moral relativism is denounced by believers of all stripes as a threat…
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
My new book, The Politics of Islamic Law, presents an approach to the study of religion, comparative politics and law…
The breaking-in of the gods
In the early pages of my recently published book, History and Presence (Belknap Harvard 2016), I describe something that happened…
On inclusion
In a recent piece in The New York Times’ column The Stone, philosophers Jay L. Garfield and Bryan W. Van…
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault: An introduction
Traditionally, Western thought framed human life as evolving in a three-dimensional space: the economic, the political, and the philosophical. Nowadays,…