Drawing on ethnographic and archival research between 2007 and 2010, I show how debates about conversion and Dalit materiality, tracing…
Duplicitous Dalits
Christianity
Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms
Conversion marriages, which always involved litigants who had exchanged their religious self-designations, perpetually mixed up personal law codes and created…
Not in the body
Does circumcision mark religious belonging onto a male body? And if so, is this marking legitimate, especially in the case…
Relationship, humility, justice
Understanding humility as rooted in relationship with others makes clear why humility cannot coexist with injustice.
“It was no way to die”
What will we make in future years of our decision to spend the last decade preoccupied with question about religion…
Testimonial aesthetics and public display
It would be inaccurate to assert that the cross is everywhere; but it is fair to say that we rarely…
On the power of aggregates
For Christians—and moderns of many types—meditating on big numbers opens the possibility of pulling back to vertiginous heights that approximate…
Passion and virtue in public life
When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic…
When was the monist century?
Why study the immanentist tradition?
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: An introduction
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution traces the origins of the European human rights system from the Hague peace conferences before…