Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion makes an extremely important and timely contribution to a conversation that…
Rethinking religion in a political scientific wilderness
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
Religion and politics beyond religious freedom
I would like to thank each of the contributors to this series for their generous engagement with my book, Beyond…
Mere Civility—An introduction
At the height of the 2016 American presidential election, a colleague asked whether I was worried that my forthcoming book…
Mere Civility and Jeremiah Wright
Reporters who covered the Jeremiah Wright controversy during the 2008 United States presidential campaign would have benefited from reading Mere…
Seinfeld, Roger Williams, and religious toleration
George: This is what she said to me, “Can we change the subject?” Jerry: See, now that I don't care…
Power and civility
Mere Civility’s final rendering of the link between civility and the future is suggestive; it excavates a democratic ethos from…
Civility, toleration, and “human rights as empathy”
As part of her argument in favor of mere civility, Bejan decisively rejects contemporary “civilitarian” claims that mutual respect and…
Civility, identity, and agency
As an American teaching university in Canada, where the illiberal regulation of disfavored speech is increasingly common, I am tempted…
How to do things in with words
Bejan revisits early modern times of extreme verbal violence, sectarianism, and bloodshed with an eye on our own. Her brilliant…
Mere Civility—A reply
"First, I must thank each of the contributors to this forum for their more than merely civil responses to my…