...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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Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic
...very strong anti-Israel bent in Congress with Democrats,” suggesting that Americans who are not his supporters favor mosques over churches. In another instance, on the very day before he designated...
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...
The failures and successes of translation
...laws and heavy-handed police action targeted at India’s Muslims. The poem had been turned into a radical anthem during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests across the country. In this instance,...
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...
Ekklesia: An introduction

...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...
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...
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...
“Populism” in Hong Kong’s contemporary politics
...deemed a Cultural Revolution “spillover” originating from outside of the city. The Hong Kong population, observing the turbulence caused by the 1967 riots (along with the instability and trauma caused...
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...