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Constituting Religion
The religion trap
August 1, 2019
There is a trap in the study of religion and politics. All traditions are equally susceptible to it, but as Tamir Moustafa suggests in his new book, Constituting Religion, the temptation may…
August 1, 2019
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The Editors
Call for Applications | Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion
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The Editors
The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University is seeking submissions to its new Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion. The prize is dedicated to the publication of first books by early career scholars working in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences. Submissions can be on any aspect of the study of religion, including the study of secularism. Prize-winners will be invited to IRCPL to participate in a workshop and the books will appear in IRCPL’s series, “Religion, Culture, and Public Life,” published by Columbia University Press.
July 31, 2019
Gospels of giving
Reparative capitalism
July 31, 2019
What would it mean to sever philanthropy—affectively, politically—from reciprocal obligation? What would it look like to enact politics on a ground other than debts owed to donors, to history, to the future?
July 31, 2019
Constituting Religion
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
July 25, 2019
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine and manage religion.
July 25, 2019
Gospels of giving
Religious charity and the spirit of homo economicus
July 24, 2019
In this brief essay I connect Gates’s philosophy of giving—along with many other contemporary neoliberal philanthropists—to Protestant traditions and the origins of capitalism, particularly the emphasis on entrepreneurialism and the development of…
July 24, 2019
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