Throughout his study, Allan's sensitive attention to forms and practices transports us to the constitutive limits of world literature. Questions of exclusion consistently haunt his book: What is lost in the act…
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Islam: An American Religion
“Only a human encounter . . .”
August 8, 2017
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan writes the initial response to Nadia Marzouki's Islam: An American Religion in this summer book forum.
August 8, 2017
In the Shadow of World Literature
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Tom McEnaney
The archaeology of a discipline and the discipline to come

Michael Allan’s groundbreaking new book In the Shadow of World Literature gives us one of the most moving and powerful models in literary study of “a discipline to come.”
August 7, 2017
Indigeneity and secularity
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Mayanthi L. Fernando
Secularism and the Animist Indigene

In the prompt that we sent to the authors participating in this forum, Vincent Lloyd and I asked a series of questions about the relationship between indigeneity and secularity: “How is indigeneity articulated within the political and legal language of secularism? Does secularism make certain claims to indigeneity illegible? What might this illegibility suggest about the close linkages between secularism, settler colonialism, and Protestant Christianity? Does the assertion of indigenous identity, of whatever kind, necessarily push against secularism’s ‘immanent frame,’ or are there ways that indigenous identity—and perhaps even the category of indigeneity itself—is a product of secularity?” The essays featured here both attend to and productively exceed these questions in multiple ways.
July 27, 2017
Spirit in the Dark
How much a spirit cost
July 25, 2017
I first connected with the work of Josef Sorett when he published this strong-voiced call to make hip hop a serious subject for the study of religion. Sorett was not the only scholar to…
July 25, 2017
Indigeneity and secularity
Indigenous protective occupation and emergent networks of spirited refusal
July 21, 2017
The spirited refusal of conceited and deaf forms of state secularity is on stark display in many contemporary protest movements. This is especially true in Native contexts wherein “Indigenous” is a relational category and…
July 21, 2017
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