The queerness of lost boys in butt huts struck me in the journalistic accounts I had read, and I took the forum on the future of marriage as an opportunity to examine…
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The surprising history of global blasphemy law
April 15, 2024
Who gets to say what about religion? When does free speech verge into something more insidious—insult, offense, even blasphemy? These questions remain highly contested across much of the contemporary world. In Pakistan,…
April 15, 2024
The state of religion in China
Revisited: The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
April 8, 2024
The slim crescent that rose above the skyline on July 9th signifies the beginning of this year’s holy month of Ramadan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where I have been teaching…
April 8, 2024
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Revisited: On “beyond Trump”: Evangelical politics, born again
April 1, 2024
Survey data indicates a growing generational split among evangelicals, with the younger generation supporting a range of left-leaning policies that their parents and grandparents vehemently opposed. These young evangelicals are interested in…
April 1, 2024
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CFP | UCSIA Summer School – God on Our Side?

The UCSIA Summer School is a one-week mentoring programme that encourages doctoral and postdoctoral students to explore interdisciplinary ways of analysing the relationship between religion, culture and society.
March 4, 2024
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We the People of the Book
December 20, 2023
In 2004, four US college students were arrested for stealing a book. A rare first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was stored in special collections at Transylvania University in…
December 20, 2023
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