This forum draws together scholars of religion, state, and society to initiate a conversation around translation and its place within…
Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
academia
Practices of relation: Fernando and Harding
In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on…
On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard
In religious studies . . . our students learn non-knowing not by thinking their way to it, but by actually…
Preposterous practices
In the broader culture and in the academy, we have moved from naming bad people to also naming privilege as…
Smuggling scholarship—In re The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
The disciplines of knowledge production—through which we instill in our students the practices of objectivity, generalizability, and professionalism—are no less…
The Muslim Ban and academia
The Muslim Ban—in its current iteration as Proclamation 9645 and in its earlier forms—is certainly an egregious attack on the…
Thinking and doing
The first thing I thought when I got the email last spring about the anniversary theme was, man, that’s a…
Are academics cloistered?
Recently, The New York Times published an article by Nicholas Kristof that lamented how academics, cloistered like medieval monks, have…
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship opening at Williams College
Williams College has posted an opportunity in the Department of Religion. The college seeks a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam…
On the passing of Jean Bethke Elshtain
Well-known ethicist and scholar Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago recently passed away on August 11, 2013.