This dialogue between scholars Robbie Goh and Hillary Kaell covers the lure of the international, “agglomerative impulses,” and attachments to strangers.
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Pandemic, religion, and public life
Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19
June 25, 2020
I am curious about how people turned to the gods historically, the discursive modes permissible for doing so in 2020, and the implications of these shifts.
June 25, 2020
The Universal Enemy
Irredeemable enemies
June 24, 2020
Representation of the non-Western Islamist fighter has long had to deal with the Eurocentric and asymmetrical nature of international relations. As political challengers to political orders driven by the global circulation of…
June 24, 2020
Pandemic, religion, and public life
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
June 18, 2020
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze chasene. But we do have a moral crisis of enormous proportion that…
June 18, 2020
The Universal Enemy
Bigging Bosnia up
June 17, 2020
As a book about the lives of “Arab” fighters in Bosnia this is a fascinating study. Its problems arise from Li’s anachronistic claim to speak about the globalization of jihad and the…
June 17, 2020
Pandemic, religion, and public life
The political theology of corona, the virus with a crown
June 11, 2020
A new sovereign—a virus with a crown—has revealed two contrasting realms of the sacred during its own state of emergency.
June 11, 2020
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