...that spills over borders, regional instability, and global terrorism. I submit that misconceptions—or, more precisely, unexamined assumptions—underlie the failure of our foreign policy elite to deploy a tool that could...
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Religion and natural disaster in Haiti ![]()
by Cecelia Lynch
So close and yet so far
...to filling this space with preconceived ideas about Haiti and Haitians. In both of these instances, the ideas of external actors about religion—both Haiti’s and their own—form part of the...
Global Christianity, Global Critique ![]()
by Matthew Engelke and Joel Robbins
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Striking changes are afoot in the way intellectuals address Christianity. Long seen as a largely Western tradition steadily losing its cultural influence in the West, Christianity has recently been re-installed...
Book introductions 
by Paul Christopher Johnson, Pamela Klassen and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Ekklesia: An introduction
by Paul Christopher Johnson, Pamela Klassen and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
...religious people. The violence of churchstateness is key. Together we engage the violence applied to unmaking rival claims and rival sovereignties in order to instate a purified democratic ideal of...
A Secular Age ![]()
by Jimmy Casas Klausen
Politics of misrecognition
...mutually transparent. By insisting on commensurability, Taylor may end up installing the domestication of minority societies as the endpoint of the struggle for recognition. Interestingly, the essay by Wendy Brown...
Notes from the field ![]()
by Rosemary Lee
Avitabile’s handwriting
...misspellings, the abbreviations; you can pick up a letter and, before even looking at the signature, you know instantly that it’s Pietro Avitabile or Alvise da Pesaro, the same way...
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
“Populism” in Hong Kong’s contemporary politics
A Secular Age ![]()
by Justin Neuman
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
...mention the differences between precolonial village life and, for instance, life in the slums of Soweto—renders suspect any claims about a singular African culture. I am also not, for the...