...took place, I was in Bangkok interviewing monks about their status as citizens. Many of my interlocutors told me that this was just “Thai-style democracy.”) In every iteration of the...
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Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
Sultan Bargash and Zanzibar’s cosmopolitan modernity
June 29, 2021
...pledged support to the British efforts to ban slave exports. Bargash the Omani bridgehead? Bargash’s interesting career makes the cosmopolitan modernity of the island as viewed from the Stone Town...
June 29, 2021
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
Us and them vs. them: How Christian nationalism facilitates multiracial coalitions of exclusion
July 26, 2023
...conservatives and other citizens in opposition to supposed “threats” from the outside. What facilitates their mutual recognition of insider status and outsider threat? I argue that religious conceptions can play...
July 26, 2023
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
Defining and organizing masculinities: Nishapur’s old women in the books of men
April 27, 2022
...a lesser status. Muḥammad Abu Hamid Al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) is well-known for his many celebrated books, especially those that integrate Sufism with legal and theological intellectual tradition. It is in the...
April 27, 2022
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Is ISIS Islamic? Why it matters for the study of Islam
by Anver Emon...Muslims are under increased surveillance and scrutiny. For the political right, that surveillance and scrutiny reflects a view of Muslims as potential threats, based on what a limited sample of...
March 27, 2015
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Minority matters
by Judith Surkis...Bahá’ís’ unequal status: it marked them as an unofficial minority or as apostates. The case of the Bahá’í illustrates more than a parochial problem. Many European states and the European...
March 1, 2016
Is this all there is
American carpe diem
by David Marno...that fanaticism of any sort would be held at bay. Eight and a half years later, it seems that the balance was too precarious to survive Obama’s presidency. What has...
January 18, 2018
Is this all there is
Money—flat, broad, and deep
by Devin Singh...a prior regime of representation still open to the depth of the sign. This was an age where money was believed to possess inherent value, matching the gold of which...
October 18, 2017
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
The soulful, comic defiance of Heavenly Bodies
September 21, 2018
...night after our field trip, back in class, we debriefed. One of my students was an African-American father from the Bronx, a veteran who spent years on an army base...
September 21, 2018
American Grace
A historian’s reaction to American Grace
by Jon Butler...historians Sydney Ahlstrom, Patrick Allitt, Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin, and Uta Andrea Balbier to the ever-looming Will Herberg. However, my sense is that “backdrop” well describes how history works in...
September 19, 2011