...Wisconsin), just to mention a few instances of a common situation known to everybody. Both the sovereign decision and the contract operate according to a logic of inclusion and exclusion...
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Withdrawing consent
...the revolutionary movement for democracy in both Egypt and Tunisia never gestured toward any religious authorization. Even the instances of collective prayer in Tahrir Square before projected mass actions remained...
“After the Shipwreck”: Interpreting religion in international relations
...framework to make sense of a growing push towards the inclusion and operationalization of religion in American foreign policy. Just this past August, for instance, Secretary of State John Kerry...
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
...selective use of history. Consider, first, Kahn’s comparison of modern democratic revolutionaries and early Protestants. To paraphrase: the trans-temporal, collective subject of the revolutionary sovereign, instantiated in every citizen, is...
Constituting Religion—An introduction
...colonialism. In others, state regulation of religion is of more recent vintage. But in either instance, the co-constitution of law and religion is a trend that is not likely to...
When is the Islamic state? Historical time and the agenda of Islamic studies

...within the discourses and institutions of the modern state: the movement in Iran, for instance, followed the longstanding revolutionary-national tradition in claiming that it acted on behalf of the will...
Populism without borders
...are today understood as exceptional problems, tomorrow will be nationalistic, racist, or fascist. If migration and the presence of migrants are understood as normal instances of human mobility, the future...
Constituting religion, contesting constitutional identity
...For instance, the Federal Court judgment in Indira Gandhi Mutho v Pengarah Jabatan Agama Islam Perak was written by a Malay-Muslim judge for a bench composed mainly of Malay-Muslim judges....
Moments from the lives of great religious books
...come into being. Our authors remind us that these material contexts of production are the neonatal moments of any text’s biography. Martin Marty, for instance, begins his biography of Deitrich...
spirit
...of a project such as this, “A Universe of Terms.” Yet even within the rubrics of an installation that revisits Mark C. Taylor’s 1998 edited volume, Critical Terms for Religious...