...the charged political environment of the Arab Spring. Less than 100 made the journey. Ahead of this year’s event around May 9 – the anniversary of the death of a...
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“Settling in the hearts”: The new face of Jewish neonationalism in Israel’s mixed cities
In spring 2021, unprecedented intercommunal and police violence broke out in Jerusalem and other cities across Israel. Known as the “Dignity Uprising” (habbet al-karamain Arabic) or “Operation Guardian of the...
American evangelicals and the Arab Spring
by Jessica PolebaumAt Foreign Policy, Molly Worthen examines the sentiments and commitments that inform many American evangelicals’ ambivalence towards the democratic possibilities of the Arab Spring: Given many evangelicals’ commitment to baptizing...
Conversion and race in colonial slavery
...is part of the story, yet the language of “not joining” implies free choice. In practice, the majority of enslaved and free blacks were forbidden from joining Protestant churches. Before...
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
...“old Dubai” and relatively permanent despite citizenship and migration policies in the United Arab Emirates. South Asians are today the largest immigrant population in the Gulf, far outnumbering citizens in...
Corporation as sect
by Kathryn Lofton...being able to reply freely to their governments. Free from influences within government, and free from religions that compete with government in their authority. Although many institutional structures within the...
An American political theology?
...in his essay “On the Jewish Question.” Marx argues that with the advent of the state, “man was not freed from religion, he received religious freedom. He was not freed...
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
...did, but also the Zionist culture there promoted physical health as noble and ennobling. Even Hadassah, the United States’ main women’s Zionist organization, saw the task of Jewish state-building and...
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Moreton and Paarlberg
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Lisa H. Sideris...United States of Excess. To read the previous posts, click here. ______ The America-Game by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd In To Serve God and Wal-Mart, labor historian Bethany Moreton tells the...
Human rights and the Arab Spring
by Candice ScharfThe New York Review of Books’ blog recently posted a debate between women’s rights groups and Human Rights Watch. In their Open Letter to Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human...