The politics of Turkish secularism does not only impose a radical break with the multi-religious Ottoman past, but simultaneously aims to deny the political violence—Armenian genocide—that constituted Turks and Armenians as majority…
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Essays
Is Masterpiece Cakeshop a church?
June 8, 2018
Where is the religion in this case and what kind of religion is it?
June 8, 2018
Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism”
Trafficking as terror
June 7, 2018
The “war on terror” and the “war on trafficking,” two seemingly separate discourses, have become interwoven in recent years, castigating Muslim majority countries as sites of depravity, difference, and danger.
June 7, 2018
Crossing and conversion
Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing
June 5, 2018
Due to the specific history of Islam in Western societies, the border that converts go over by becoming Muslim is not simply religious, but also cultural, ethnic, and even racial.
June 5, 2018
Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism”
The “woman question” as symptomatic of imperialism
May 31, 2018
I want to bring the arguments of Farris and Scott into conversation with two other recent publications in order to highlight another set of points about geopolitics in relation to political and…
May 31, 2018
Essays
Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam
May 30, 2018
Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay suggests that religion has long been an important identifier for the prison…
May 30, 2018
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