This dialogue between scholars Robbie Goh and Hillary Kaell covers the lure of the international, “agglomerative impulses,” and attachments to…
Practices of relation: Goh and Kaell
globalization
Bigging Bosnia up
As a book about the lives of “Arab” fighters in Bosnia this is a fascinating study. Its problems arise from…
Bordering the Kingdom
If the Kingdom of God has no borders, then this can be true only for those for whom borders do…
In the Shadow of World Literature—A reply
In what follows, I have hopes of acknowledging my debt to the various participants of the forum from whom I…
For the love of literature—A critique
No intervention in literature studies could be more urgent than the one offered in Michael Allan’s In the Shadow of…
From Christ to Confucius
In his exciting and beautifully written book, From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity,…
An exceptional tradition? The Jesuits in the world
In September of this year, the president of Georgetown University, John DeGioia, issued a formal apology for the 1838 sale…
Revitalizing the power of the great in-between
In his thoughtful The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama argues that there are three pillars of order that are…
Faith, modernity and Holy Ignorance
At Foreign Affairs, Karen Barkey looks at Oliver Roy's book Holy Ignorance.
Globalization and secularization
In the latest issue of the European Journal of Sociology, José Casanova reviews two recent works by eminent British sociologists:…