But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…
Is Europe (still) white?
European Union
Freedom’s fascists: Hate speech and the new European far right
Far right parties have metamorphisized: they are now anti-Islamic rather than anti-Semitic; as populist parties they rely on mass mobilization…
Is there a crisis of secularism in Western Europe?
Even quite sober academics speak of "a contemporary crisis of secularism," claiming that "today, political secularisms are in crisis in…
Religious freedom in the EU
This July 11-12, a small interdisciplinary group scholars convened in Venice for the first in a series of workshops organized…
Spain moves to ban burqa
In the most recent European attempt to prevent radical Islam's spread, Spain's Senate voted this past Wednesday in favor of…
Letter from Istanbul
I have come to Turkey at a time when discussions of a “shift in the axis” of Turkey’s foreign policy…
Turkey, Islam, and the EU
At Contexts Magazine, Jeffrey C. Dixon offers a variety of resources for understanding the controversy over Turkey’s application to the…