The Social Science Research Council recently announced the launch of a new project and grants program entitled "New Directions in…
RFP: New Directions in the Study of Prayer
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New directions in the study of prayer
The Social Science Research Council has just announced the launch of a major new project and grants program entitled “New…
A suspension of (dis)belief
Most academic discussions in political science and international relations presuppose a fixed definition of the secular and the religious and…
The Help, ethnography, and ickiness
This is a post about the politics of representation, postcolonial theory, and the Hollywood movie, The Help. And it begins…
Normative demands of Islamic studies scholarship
As a lawyer, I appreciate the critical importance of historical inquiry to contemporary legal challenges; as a historian, I resist…
Transmitting “secular” oral traditions
Why does our academic culture operate under the assumption that “secular” education is fundamentally distinct from or superior to non-“secular”…
Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization
I have not been interested in the Barnes and Noble non-fiction section for a long time. There might be a…
New journal: Secularism and Nonreligion
Secularism and Nonreligion, the "world's first journal dedicated to the study of the nonreligious and the secular," recently announced its…
The politics of inaccuracy and a case for “Islamic law”
Since the process of understanding divine law is not a uniform or singular one, there are multiple interpretations of what…
New fellowship opportunities for African faculty
The Social Science Research Council has announced three new fellowship opportunities for African faculty researching topics related to peace, security, and development.…