...the question of bifurcated jurisdiction. In the Malaysian case, the absence of an appellate mechanism for civil courts to review decisions by Malaysia’s “syariah courts” generates critical legal lacunae for...
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The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
The evangelicals abroad
August 9, 2018
...global poverty, economic injustice, and discriminatory race and gender politics. These so-called “feedback effects of reverse missions” were more frequent than is often recognized. Colorful individuals such as Samuel Escobar,...
August 9, 2018
Is this all there is
Do my socks respond to my caress?
by Sonia Hazard...accumulate to me and I find it vaguely painful to throw things away. The Japanese lifestyle guru Marie Kondo wrote a bestselling book to help people like me. It is...
November 27, 2017
Religion and reproductive science
Religion and reproductive science
July 31, 2020
On July 8, 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Pennsylvania in favor of the Trump administration’s challenge to what is commonly known as the “contraceptive mandate” of...
July 31, 2020
Book introductions
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: An introduction
September 20, 2017
...In Britain, the Labour Party decisively bested the Tories in the July 1945 general election. Three months later, across the Channel, communists and democratic socialists won a majority of seats...
September 20, 2017
Social inequality in/and religious studies
Complicit scholarship
January 10, 2019
Recently, I read an article in which an anonymous graduate student in the Netherlands asked why the university failed so spectacularly and consistently in diversifying its faculty, despite repeated claims...
January 10, 2019
Divine motherhood
Being mother/being God
June 17, 2019
...holding, feeding, comforting, dressing. These are quotidian, repetitive tasks. They require embodied intimacy. Even more importantly, these tasks generate intimacy. There is no intrinsic reason women in particular should do...
June 17, 2019
Death Be Not Proud
by
Niklaus Largier
The stakes of attention

After reading David Marno’s beautiful and rich Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention, I was tempted to look for a number of books on the shelves. I...
November 22, 2017
Essays
The geopolitics of the “shithole”
March 29, 2018
Donald Trump’s utterance of the phrase “shithole countries” caused great national consternation. Dick Durbin, for instance, was sure no “president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak.”...
March 29, 2018
A Universe of Terms
spirit
by Olivia Whitener“Spirit” features in A Universe of Terms, a project of The Immanent Frame. For information on why and how this project was curated, read the framing essay “Creating the Universe.”...
November 14, 2019